The Storm of War

Resumen del libro

On 2 August 1944 Winston Churchill mocked Adolf Hitler in the House of Commons by the rank he had reached in the First World War. 'Russian success has been somewhat aided by the strategy of Herr Hitler, of Corporal Hitler,' Churchill jibed. 'Even military idiots find it difficult not to see some faults in his actions.'


Andrew Roberts's previous book Masters and Commanders studied the creation of Allied grand strategy; The Storm of War now analyses how Axis strategy evolved. Examining the Second World War on every front, Roberts asks whether, with a different decision-making process and a different strategy, the Axis might even have won. Were those German generals who blamed everything on Hitler after the war correct, or were they merely scapegoating their former Führer once he was safely beyond defending himself? The book is full of illuminating sidelights on the principle actors that bring their characters and the ways in which they reached decisions into fresh focus.

Biografía del autor

Andrew Roberts es un destacado biógrafo e historiador. Autor de best sellers como Napoleón, Churchill y La tormenta de la guerra, entre otros libros. Miembro de la International Napoleonic Society (Francia) y de la Royal Society of Literature (Reino Unido), ha ganado numerosos premios, incluyendo el Wolfson History Prize y el British Army Military Book of the Year (ambos en el Reino Unido).