{"product_id":"masters-and-commanders-how-four-titans-won-the-war-in-the-west-1941-1945-9780061228582","title":"Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Masterly. . . . Roberts's portrait of the relationship between the four men who made Allied strategy through the war years is a triumph of vivid description, telling anecdotes, and informed analysis.\" --Max Hastings, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn epic joint biography, \u003cem\u003eMasters and Commanders\u003c\/em\u003e explores the degree to which the course of the Second World War turned on the relationships and temperaments of four of the strongest personalities of the twentieth century: political masters Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt and the commanders of their armed forces, General Sir Alan Brooke and General George C. Marshall. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach was exceptionally tough-willed and strong-minded, and each was certain that only he knew best how to win the war. Andrew Roberts, \"Britain's finest contemporary military historian\" (\u003cem\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/em\u003e), traces the mutual suspicion and admiration, the rebuffs and the charm, the often-explosive disagreements and wary reconciliations, and he helps us to appreciate the motives and imperatives of these key leaders as they worked tirelessly in the monumental struggle to destroy Nazism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoberts, Andrew:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eAndrew Roberts is the author of \u003cem\u003eMasters and Commanders\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900.\u003c\/em\u003e His other books include \u003cem\u003eNapoleon and Wellington, Eminent Churchillians, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSalisbury, \u003c\/em\u003e which won the Wolfson History Prize. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a PhD in history from Cambridge University and writes regularly for \u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Daily Beast.\u003c\/em\u003e He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50543361098002,"sku":"9780061228582","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ced6a1d8-1fa1-4baa-b780-b90d533650c5.jpg?v=1731507326","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/masters-and-commanders-how-four-titans-won-the-war-in-the-west-1941-1945-9780061228582","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}