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World War II lasted for 2174 days, cost $1.5 trillion and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. Why did it take the course that it did? In The Storm of War, best-selling historian Andrew Roberts follows up his book Masters and Commanders with an in-depth analysis of Axis strategy during World War II, and discusses the reasons behind the Axis defeat. In researching this unique history, Roberts has explored the key battlefields of the war, and uncovered many important yet unpublished documents. He looks at the major figures on both sides of the war, and asks whether, with a different decision-making process and a different strategy, the Axis might even have won. Andrew Roberts is the author of Masters and Commanders and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900. His other books include Napoleon and Wellington, Eminent Churchillians, and Salisbury, which won the Wolfson History Prize. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Roberts writes regularly for The Wall Street Journal. ''The Storm of War is a great achievement, an immensely readable, nicely paced feat of historical condensation ... An excellent one-volume history of the war.'' - Ian Pindar, the Guardian
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“Gripping. . . . splendid history. A brilliantly clear and accessible account of the war in all its theaters. Roberts’s prose is unerringly precise and strikingly vivid. It is hard to imagine a better-told military history of World War II.” –New York Times Book Review
Andrew Roberts's acclaimed new military history has been hailed as the finest single-volume account of this epic conflict. From the western front to North Africa, from the Baltic to the Far East, he tells the story of the war—the grand strategy and the individual experience, the brutality and the heroism—as never before.
Meticulously researched and masterfully written, The Storm of War illuminates the war's principal actors, revealing how their decisions shaped the course of the global conflict. Along the way, Roberts presents tales of the many lesser-known individuals whose experiences form a panoply of the courage and self-sacrifice, as well as the depravity and cruelty, of the Second World War.
This comprehensive single-volume history delves into every theater of the war, revealing:
- Grand Strategy: An examination of the principal actors whose decisions determined the fate of nations.
- Total Global Conflict: In-depth coverage of every front, from the shores of Western Europe and the sands of North Africa to the Baltic and the fierce fighting in the Far East.
- The Human Experience: Moving tales of heroism, self-sacrifice, and suffering from the lesser-known individuals who fought, endured, and perished.
- Definitive Single-Volume History: A masterful and meticulously researched account that brings the entire epic of World War II into sharp focus in one book.
