ISBN:

• 9781524746483 (hardcover)
• 9781524746483
• 1524746487

Description: xi, 530 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

• Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler : how war made them, and how they made war
• Strategists

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

Contents:

• 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.

Control Number: 3334837

Subjects:

• Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Military leadership.
• Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Military leadership.
• Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 -- Military leadership.
• Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Military leadership.
• Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Military leadership.
• Strategy -- History -- 20th century.
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns.
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history.