Historian Andrew Roberts’ insight about Winston Churchill’s relation to fate in “Churchill: Walking With Destiny” comes directly from the subject himself. 30, 1874, at Blenheim Palace, the ancestral home of the Duke of Marlborough. The Art of War: Great Commanders of the Modern World – Vol.Winston Churchill was born on Nov.The Art of War: Great Commanders of the Modern World – Vol.1.Listen to Andrew talking on the Today Programme.The result is a strikingly intimate and enjoyable account, which recreates with dramatic immediacy the atmosphere, debates and manoeuvrings through which Allied grand strategy was forged, and shows clearly the impact of personality upon history.Ĭlick here to view Andrew speaking about his new book, Masters and CommandersĬlick here to read more about Andrew and his new book, Masters and Commanders through his publishers, PenguinĪndrew Roberts reassesses how Winston Churchill will be regarded in light of the revelations in his new book, Masters and Commanders. In reconstructing the debates between these four principals and many of the other leading senior Allied figures, Roberts draws upon the private papers of nearly seventy contemporaries and on verbatim accounts of Churchill’s War Cabinet meetings never before reproduced in book form. The book traces the mutual suspicion and admiration, the rebuffs and the charm, the often explosive disagreements and wary reconciliations which resulted. Yet each knew that he had to win at least two of the others in order to get his strategy adopted.

Each was exceptionally tough-willed and strong minded, and each was certain that he knew best how to win the war. Roosevelt – and the military commanders of their armed forces – the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Sir Alan Brooke, and the US Army Chief of Staff, General George C. One of the aims of the book is to show the degree to which the answers to these and many other key riddles of the Second World War turned on the personalities and relationships between two political masters – Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Why, when the most direct route from Britain to Germany was through north-western France, did the western allies first launch assaults on North Africa, Sicily and Rome? Why, if D-Day was intended to be the start of the Allies’ great thrust into Germany, did four hundred thousand men land five hundred miles to the south, in southern France, two months later? Why did the Allies not take Berlin, Vienna or Prague, and allow the Iron Curtain to descend where it did? Masters and Commanders describes how four titanic figures shaped the grand strategy of the West during the Second World War. MASTERS AND COMMANDERS is now available at Audible online

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