The strategists : Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler : how war made them, and how they made war Cover Image

The strategists : Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler : how war made them, and how they made war / Phillips Payson O'Brien.

Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler : (other title)

O'Brien, Phillips Payson, 1963- (author.).

Summary:

"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"-- Amazon.

Record details

ISBN: 9781524746483
ISBN: 1524746487
Physical Description: xi, 530 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: [New York, New York] : Dutton, [2024]
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-495) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Strategy, war and personality -- Winston Churchill : the making of an imperial strategist -- Joseph Stalin : the making of an ideological strategist -- Franklin Roosevelt : the young maritime strategist -- Benito Mussolini : the birth of a nationalist strategist -- Adolf Hitler : art and war -- Winston Churchill : learning strategic restraint -- Joseph Stalin and the strategy of practicality -- Franklin Roosevelt and the domestic policy of strategy -- Benito Mussolini and bluffing as strategy -- Adolf Hitler : victory and defeat -- Interlude: The interwar years -- Hitler, Stalin, and the Nazi-Soviet pact -- Churchill, Hitler and the Battle of Britain -- Mussolini, Churchill and Greece, 1940-41 -- Stalin, Hitler and Barbarossa -- Roosevelt, Hitler and the road to war -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Hitler and the air-sea-super-battlefield -- Mussolini, Churchill, Roosevelt and empire in the Mediterranean -- Hitler, STalin and the Eastern front -- Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin and the cross-channel invasion -- Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill and the post-war world -- Epilogue: The strategists' war.