ISBN10: 0713999691, ISBN13: 9780713999693, [publisher: Allen Lane, Penguin Press] Hardcover (Subject: World War II - General) How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke won the war in the west. Focuses on the relationship between Roosevelt and Churchill and the military commanders of their armed forces. Each was exceptionally tough willed and each was certain that he knew how to win the war. (Published: 2008) (Publisher: Allen Lane, Penguin Press) (ISBN: 9780713999693) (Pagination: 674pp illustrations) (Condition: Very good in good d/w with slight edge creasing) UL-XXXXXX
[Folkestone, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0713999691, ISBN13: 9780713999693, [publisher: Penguin Books, Limited] Hardcover "Masters and Commanders" describes how four titanic figures shaped the grand strategy of the West during the Second World War. Why, when the most direct route from Britain to Germany was through north-western France, did the western allies first launch assaults on North Africa, Sicily and Rome? Why, if D-Day was intended to be the start of the Allies' great thrust into Germany, did four hundred thousand men land five hundred miles to the south, in southern France, two months later? Why did the Allies not take Berlin, Vienna or Prague, and allow the Iron Curtain to descend where it did?One of the aims of the book is to show the degree to which the answers to these and many other key riddles of the Second World War turned on the personalities and relationships between two political masters - Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt - and the military commanders of their armed forces - the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Sir Alan Brooke, and the US Army Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall. 2008. First edition, first printing. A near fine copy only marked by very light finger soiling to the edges. The d/w is unclipped and fine and now in a protective cover.
[York, WA, Australia] [Publication Year: 2008]