{"product_id":"masters-and-commanders-how-four-titans-won-the-war-in-the-west-1941-1945-9780061228582","title":"Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Masterly. . . . Roberts's portrait of the relationship between the four men who made Allied strategy through the war years is a triumph of vivid description, telling anecdotes, and informed analysis.\" --Max Hastings, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn epic joint biography, \u003cem\u003eMasters and Commanders\u003c\/em\u003e explores the degree to which the course of the Second World War turned on the relationships and temperaments of four of the strongest personalities of the twentieth century: political masters Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt and the commanders of their armed forces, General Sir Alan Brooke and General George C. Marshall. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach was exceptionally tough-willed and strong-minded, and each was certain that only he knew best how to win the war. Andrew Roberts, \"Britain's finest contemporary military historian\" (\u003cem\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/em\u003e), traces the mutual suspicion and admiration, the rebuffs and the charm, the often-explosive disagreements and wary reconciliations, and he helps us to appreciate the motives and imperatives of these key leaders as they worked tirelessly in the monumental struggle to destroy Nazism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/13\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780061228582\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.32w x 1.42d","brand":"Andrew Roberts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44736653459637,"sku":"9780061228582","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_852c12a5-f615-4123-962a-b277ca2cc7ee.jpg?v=1729609938","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/masters-and-commanders-how-four-titans-won-the-war-in-the-west-1941-1945-9780061228582","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}