Cover art for The Strategists
Published
Penguin, June 2025
ISBN
9781405966597
Format
Softcover, 544 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 3.5cm

The Strategists Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler - How War Made Them, And How They Made War by

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A bold revisionist history exploring the impact of WW1 on the mindsets and strategic decisions of WW2's most important leaders

In THE STRATEGISTS, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how they fought WW2. For example, Churchill's experiences of facing the German Army in France in 1916 made him unwilling to send masses of British soldiers back there in the 1940s, while Hitler's mistakes on the Eastern Front were influenced by his reluctance to accept that conditions had changed since his own time fighting. The implications of the power of leaders remain with us to this day- to truly understand what is happening in Ukraine, for example, requires us to know what has influenced the leaders involved.

This is a history in which leaders - and their choices - matter. For better or worse.

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