Alan Allport

Alan Allport is a professor of history at Syracuse University in New York. His latest book is Advance Britannia: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945 (Knopf, 2025).

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Two women wearing 1940s-style dresses and hair and makeup perch in the back of a military truck, waving toward the camera. Other people are dressed in berets and military uniforms or khaki outfits to reprsent the French resistance. The truck drives down the middle of a road away from the camera between spectators on either side, a cloudy sky looming overhead.
Two women wearing 1940s-style dresses and hair and makeup perch in the back of a military truck, waving toward the camera. Other people are dressed in berets and military uniforms or khaki outfits to reprsent the French resistance. The truck drives down the middle of a road away from the camera between spectators on either side, a cloudy sky looming overhead.

U.S. Strategists Keep Getting France’s Defeat Wrong

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