Description
"Masterly. . . . Roberts's portrait of the relationship between the four men who made Allied strategy through the war years is a triumph of vivid description, telling anecdotes, and informed analysis. --Max Hastings, The New York Review of Books
An epic joint biography, Masters and Commanders explores the degree to which the course of the Second World War turned on the relationships and temperaments of four of the strongest personalities of the twentieth century: political masters Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt and the commanders of their armed forces, General Sir Alan Brooke and General George C. Marshall.
Each was exceptionally tough-willed and strong-minded, and each was certain that only he knew best how to win the war. Andrew Roberts, Britain's finest contemporary military historian (The Economist), traces the mutual suspicion and admiration, the rebuffs and the charm, the often-explosive disagreements and wary reconciliations, and he helps us to appreciate the motives and imperatives of these key leaders as they worked tirelessly in the monumental struggle to destroy Nazism.
Author: Andrew Roberts
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 05/04/2010
Pages: 736
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.32w x 1.42d
ISBN13: 9780061228582
ISBN10: 0061228583
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War II | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Military
- Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads of State
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