Masters and Commanders

<p><strong>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 <em>The New York Review of Books</em></strong> </p><p>An epic joint biography <em>Masters and Commanders</em> 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. </p><p>Each 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 (<em>The Economist</em>) 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.</p>