Britain's War

This is an energetic, ambitious, provocative work by a young historian of notable gifts, which deserves a wide readership – Max Hastings * The Sunday Times *
A gifted historian…he tells the big story well but also illustrates his themes with many small stories and appealing anecdotes. – Peter Clarke * Financial Times *
Todman explores every aspect of the British experience of the war…rich in telling detail and reliant on the records kept by a host of ordinary Britons as they came to terms with the events going on around them…what ordinary people thought about the time they were living through provides a texture and depth that older wartime narratives have often lacked. – Richard Overy * Literary Review *
[Dan Todman] has succeeded in creating something that adds to our perception of what happened during this critical period…It is a compliment to Todman that time and again in reading his book I found myself thinking that I wanted to know more about this or that aspect. – David Aaronovitch * The Times *
The first volume of Dan Todman’s new history of Britain and the Second World War is a tour de force. Taking the story up to the end of 1941, Todman provides us with a judicious guide to the road to war and its catastrophic first phase, offering in addition a shrewd portrait of Churchill which is worth the price of the book alone. Total history at its best. – Jay Winter, Yale University
Bold and breathtaking… I have never read a more daringly panoramic survey of the period…Todman has taken on a mammoth task but, at half-time, he shows every sign of completing it triumphantly. – Jonathan Wright * Herald Scotland *

Daniel Todman is Professor of Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London. He was named The Times Young Academic Author of the Year in 2005 for The Great War- Myth and Memory. He previously taught in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy and was the co-editor of Lord Alanbrooke’s bestselling War Diaries. The first volume of Britain’s War (Into Battle- 1937-1941) was published to great acclaim in 2016.

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