The Strategists - Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini Hitler How War Made Them,

<''Entirely fresh, brilliantly insightful and utterly compelling '' James Holland

Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist.

In THE STRATEGISTS, Professor Phillips Payson O''Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how they fought WW2. For example, Churchill''s experiences of facing the German Army in France in 1916 made him unwilling to send masses of British soldiers back there in the 1940s, while Hitler''s mistakes on the Eastern Front were influenced by his reluctance to accept that conditions had changed since his own time fighting.

The implications of the power of leaders remain with us to this day: to truly understand what is happening in Ukraine, for example, requires us to know what has influenced the leaders involved.

This is a history in which leaders - and their choices - matter. For better or worse.<>

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Phillips Payson O'Brien is one of our finest historical thinkers. The Strategists shows him at the height of his powers: a book full of deep perception, convincingly challenging many entrenched views and examining these five leaders that so shaped the modern world in an entirely fresh, brilliantly insightful and utterly compelling way. Everyone with an interest in not just the Second World War, but the twentieth century and beyond, should read this without delay. James Holland, author of Normandy '44

Product details

• Authors: Phillips Payson O'Brien
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.03.2025
• EAN: 9781405966597
• ISBN: 978-1-4059-6659-7
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Germany, First World War, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Italy, Second World War, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Military and defence strategy, USSR, Soviet Union, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era