Andrew Roberts

Broschiertes Buch

Masters and Commanders

The Military Geniuses Who Led The West To Victory In World War II

Beschreibung

During the Second World War the master strategy of the West was shaped by four titanic figures: Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, and their respective military commanders - General Sir Alan Brooke and General George C Marshall. This title tells the story of how four great leaders fought each other over how best to fight Hitler.

Autor

Andrew Roberts (Lord Roberts of Belgravia) is a biographer and historian of international renown whose books include Salisbury: Victorian Titan (winner of the Wolfson Prize for History), Masters and Commanders (winner of the Emery Reves Award), The Storm of War (winner of the British Army Book Prize), Napoleon the Great (winner of the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoléon and the Los Angeles Times Biography Prize), and George III (winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography). 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 Bonnie and Tom McCloskey Distinguished Visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His website is www.andrew-roberts.net.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 720
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 129mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9780141029269
• ISBN-10: 0141029269
• Artikelnr.: 25837816