During the Second World War the master strategy of the West was shaped by four titanic figures: Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, and their respective military commanders - General Sir Alan Brooke and General George C Marshall. This title tells the story of how four great leaders fought each other over how best to fight Hitler.
Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of international renown whose previous books include Salisbury: Victorian Titan (1999), which won the Wolfson History Prize and the James Stern Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction; Napoleon and Wellington (2001); Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership (2003), which coincided with four-part BBC2 history series, and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 (2005). Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts. He appears regularly on British television and radio and writes for the Sunday Telegraph, the Spectator, the Literary Review, the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Telegraph.
