{"product_id":"masters-and-commanders-how-four-titans-won-the-war-in-the-west-1941-1945-9780061228582","title":"Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"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, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn epic joint biography, \u003cem\u003eMasters and Commanders\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach 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\" (\u003cem\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/em\u003e), 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Roberts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/04\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.32w x 1.42d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780061228582\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoberts, Andrew:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Roberts\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eis a biographer and historian whose books include the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestsellers \u003cem\u003eChurchill: Walking With Destiny\u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eNapoleon: A Life \u003c\/em\u003e(winner of the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/em\u003eBook Prize), \u003cem\u003eMasters and Commanders\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Storm of War\u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eSalisbury: Victorian Titan\u003c\/em\u003e(winner of the Wolfson Prize for History), among others. His most recent book, \u003cem\u003eThe Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III, \u003c\/em\u003ewas published in November 2021. Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Literature and the Royal Historical Society, and a Trustee of the International Churchill Society. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies at King's College, London, and the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43088150790259,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":23.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_1c53eb86-257d-4a67-9107-3c5694c7b57d.jpg?v=1748973134","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/masters-and-commanders-how-four-titans-won-the-war-in-the-west-1941-1945-9780061228582","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}