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Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler–How War Made Them and How They Made War

Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler–How War Made Them and How They Made War

Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler–How War Made Them and How They Made War

By Phillips Payson O’Brien

By Phillips Payson O’Brien

By Phillips Payson O’Brien

By Phillips Payson O’Brien

By Phillips Payson O’Brien

By Phillips Payson O’Brien

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    About The Strategists

    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.

    About The Strategists

    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.

    About The Strategists

    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.

    About Phillips Payson O’Brien

    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… More about Phillips Payson O’Brien

    About Phillips Payson O’Brien

    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… More about Phillips Payson O’Brien

    About Phillips Payson O’Brien

    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… More about Phillips Payson O’Brien

    Product Details

    Category: World War II Military History | Historical Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Hardcover | $30.00
    Published by Dutton
    Aug 27, 2024 | 544 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9781524746483

    Category: World War II Military History | Historical Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Dutton
    Aug 27, 2024 | 544 Pages | ISBN 9781524746506

    Category: World War II Military History | Historical Figure Biographies & Memoirs | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $27.50
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Aug 27, 2024 | 1080 Minutes | ISBN 9780593951682

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    Praise

    “Phillips Payson O’Brien is one of our finest historical thinkers. The Strategists shows him at the height of his powers: a book full of deep perception, convincingly challenging many entrenched views and examining these five leaders that so shaped the modern world in an entirely fresh, brilliantly insightful and utterly compelling way. Everyone with an interest in not just the Second World War, but the twentieth century and beyond, should read this without delay.” —James Holland, author of Normandy ’44

    “An exploration of grand strategy. Compelling.” —Kirkus

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