The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War - Hardcover
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:DuttonISBN-13:9781524746483ISBN-10:1524746487UPC:9781524746483Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, Military, HistoricalBook Topic:World War II, StrategySize:9.10 x 6.40 x 1.90 inchesWeight:1.7527Product ID:SCHG5F9RA1
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:DuttonISBN-13:9781524746483ISBN-10:1524746487UPC:9781524746483Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, Military, HistoricalBook Topic:World War II, StrategySize:9.10 x 6.40 x 1.90 inchesWeight:1.7527Product ID:SCHG5F9RA1
Phillips Payson O'Brien is a Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland. Born and raised in Boston, he graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, before working on Wall Street for two years. He earned a PhD in British and American politics and naval policy before being selected as Cambridge University's Mellon Research Fellow in American History, and a Drapers Research Fellow at Pembroke College. Formerly at the University of Glasgow, he moved to St. Andrews in 2016. O'Brien is the author of The Second Most Powerful Man in the World and How the War Was Won.
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