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The Strategists: A bold revisionist history exploring the impact of WW1 on the decisions of WW2's most important leaders (ePub eBook)

eBook by O'Brien, Phillips Payson

The Strategists: A bold revisionist history exploring the impact of WW1 on the decisions of WW2's most important leaders (ePub eBook)

£12.99

ISBN:
9781405966603
Publication Date:
15 Aug 2024
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Imprint:
Penguin
Pages:
544 pages
Format:
eBook
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The Strategists: A bold revisionist history exploring the impact of WW1 on the decisions of WW2's most important leaders (ePub eBook)

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'Entirely fresh, brilliantly insightful and utterly compelling ' James HollandChurchill. 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.

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