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Books : Masters and Commanders: The Military Geniuses Who Led the West to Victory in World War II: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West
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Masters and Commanders: The Military Geniuses Who Led the West to Victory in World War II: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West by: Andrew Roberts List Price: £25.00 Vegetarian Books Price: £12.50 You Save: £12.50 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780713999693 ISBN: 0713999691 Label: Allen Lane Manufacturer: Allen Lane Number Of Pages: 672 Publication Date: September 25, 2008 Publisher: Allen Lane Studio: Allen Lane Sales Rank: 613 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - This book is a lieHow Churchill and a few others (to make up the numbers) won the war and defeated fascism is the idiots guide to WW2, and an addition to the neoconservatives library (now sadly redundant). Andrew Roberts is a historian with a particular agenda that seeks to perpetuate the 'special relationship'. Read this at your peril or if you fancy yourself as Churchill. Rating:  - High Stakes at the High TableI read a short review of this book in the Sunday times and ordered a copy next day. I had never heard of Alan Brooke and only knew of George Marshall from the post war Marshall Plan, so the book was a revelation. For two weeks this has been my bedtime read, and I always looked forward to it. The mixture of high politics and anecdotal detail from the diaries of the observers of these events was fascinating. At times I felt that I was in the room with the protagonists and could feel their frustration. Previously I had only a gritty view of the physical war, but now better understand the high stakes at the high table of war. I normally read historical, crime and spy fiction, so well done Andrew Roberts for producing ... Read More: Rating: - Comments by Michael Calum Jacques, author of '1st Century Radical'.This fascinating book, thick with historical data and insights, makes a riveting read. Whilst having no wish to quarrel with previous reviewers, for this reviewer, the book's strength is to be found within the all too rare combination of the elucidation of pertinent details and the subsequent compilation and marshaling of this data in order to reach coherent conclusions. The hi-lighting of detailed minutiae is only of secondary value, it would appear, if any historical advances are unable to be procured from it. Fortunately, this fastidiously researched volume abounds in both. It is a lengthy read, at round 670 pages, and is at times dense in the chronicled information it conveys. It is an honest read, too, and this reviewer ... Read More: Rating: - The National Reviews So FarReviews of Masters and Commanders `Writing with clarity and elegance, Mr Roberts conveys how his four principals and their armies of aides and staff officers thrashed out the formulae for victory. This is an important book which, in its layered references to Waterloo, the Crimea and the Somme, sees Mr Roberts lay claim to the title of Britain's finest contemporary military historian.' The Economist `Despite eschewing the visceral drama of the battlefield for the less deadly, if no less hard-fought, debates of various Allied conferences, cabinets and committees, Roberts has produced a surprisingly gripping read. He has marshalled his material superbly and his warts-and-all assessment of his four subjects is invariable ... Read More: |
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