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Masters and Commanders de Andrew Roberts

Masters and Commanders

Autor Andrew Roberts
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 mai 2009

Descoperim în Masters and Commanders o analiză riguroasă a modului în care marea strategie a Occidentului în timpul celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial nu a fost un plan liniar, ci rezultatul unor dispute aprinse între patru personalități titanice. Aplicabilitatea practică a acestui volum rezidă în demonstrarea modului în care leadership-ul de nivel înalt gestionează compromisul sub presiune extremă. Găsim aici o reconstrucție fidelă a dinamicii dintre Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt și comandanții lor militari, generalii Alan Brooke și George C. Marshall, bazată pe documente anterior nepublicate, inclusiv stenogramele Cabinetului de Război britanic. Notăm cu interes cum Andrew Roberts reușește să transforme dezbaterea strategică într-o narațiune vibrantă, unde orgoliile personale și viziunile militare divergente se ciocnesc în încercarea de a defini cursul victoriei împotriva Germaniei naziste. Cartea este comparabilă cu The Supreme Commander de Stephen E. Ambrose în rigurozitate, dar este actualizată pentru cercetarea istorică modernă prin accesul la surse primare care relevă dialogurile directe și tensiunile nuanțate din spatele ușilor închise. În contextul operei sale, această lucrare rafinează temele explorate anterior în Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership, trecând de la analiza duală la o perspectivă cvadrilaterală mult mai complexă. Spre deosebire de Leadership in War, unde autorul oferă portrete individuale, aici accentul cade pe interdependența și fricțiunile dintre Aliați, oferind o perspectivă esențială asupra modului în care s-a forjat arhitectura lumii postbelice.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141029269
ISBN-10: 0141029269
Pagini: 720
Ilustrații: 16 pp b/w inset
Dimensiuni: 129 x 200 x 37 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte se adresează pasionaților de istorie militară și celor interesați de psihologia leadership-ului în situații de criză. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care deciziile strategice globale sunt influențate de relații interpersonale și negocieri dure. Este un motiv concret pentru a explora culisele puterii, dincolo de hărțile de pe front, într-un format paperback dens, de peste 700 de pagini.

Despre autor

Andrew Roberts, născut în 1963, este un istoric și biograf britanic de renume internațional, considerat de The Economist drept unul dintre cei mai buni istorici militari contemporani. Opera sa se concentrează pe figuri și momente pivot ale istoriei, primind distincții precum Premiul Wolfson pentru Istorie pentru biografia lordului Salisbury. În lucrările sale, precum George III sau The Chief, Roberts îmbină cercetarea academică minuțioasă cu un stil narativ captivant, fiind recunoscut pentru capacitatea de a aduce la viață complexitatea liderilor politici și militari.

Notă biografică

Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of international renown whose previous books include Salisbury: Victorian Titan (1999), which won the Wolfson History Prize and the James Stern Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction; Napoleon and Wellington (2001); Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership (2003), which coincided with four-part BBC2 history series, and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 (2005). Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts. He appears regularly on British television and radio and writes for the Sunday Telegraph, the Spectator, the Literary Review, the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Telegraph.

Descriere scurtă

Andrew Roberts's Masters and Commanders: The Military Geniuses who led the West to Victory in WWII tells the story of how four great leaders fought each other over how best to fight Hitler.

During the Second World War the master strategy of the West was shaped by four titanic figures: Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, and their respective military commanders - General Sir Alan Brooke and General George C. Marshall. Each man was tough-willed and strong minded. And each was certain he knew best how to achieve victory.

Drawing on previously unpublished material, including for the first time verbatim reports of Churchill's War Cabinet meetings, Andrew Roberts's acclaimed history recreates with vivid immediacy the fiery debates and political maneuverings, the rebuffs and the charm, the explosive rows and dramatic reconciliations, as the masters and commanders of the Western Alliance fought each other over the best way to fight Adolf Hitler.

'History as it should be written; a gripping narrative'
  Michael Gove, Mail on Sunday Books of the Year

'Scintillating historical writing on the whole rich panorama of Britain and the US at war'
  Martin Gilbert, Evening Standard

'A compelling analysis of American and British military strategy during the war. He also tells a profoundly human story'
  Laurence Rees, Sunday Times

'A masterpiece'
  Christopher Silvester, Daily Express

'Britain's finest contemporary military historian'
  Economist Books of the Year

Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of international renown whose previous books include Salisbury: Victorian Titan (1999), which won the Wolfson History Prize and the James Stern Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction; Napoleon and Wellington (2001); Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership (2003), which coincided with four-part BBC2 history series, and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 (2005).

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An epic joint biography, Masters and Commanders 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. 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" (The Economist), 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.

Recenzii

“With his usual brisk and vivid prose. . . . Mr. Roberts captures not only the personalities of World War II’s masters and commanders but the dynamics of their relations.” — The Wall Street Journal
“Compelling. . . . In Masters and Commanders, British historian Andrew Roberts skillfully dissects the complex, contentious relationships among Brooke, Marshall and the other two key strategists of World War II’s Western Alliance, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. . . . As Roberts makes clear throughout the book, hammering out Allied strategy was an untidy, exhausting, sometimes debilitating process, replete with fist-shaking arguments and emotional tantrums.” — Washington Post
“Fascinating. . . . By mining previously unavailable diaries and oral histories . . . this book brings vividly to life the personal interactions and impressions of those involved. Roberts has a keen eye for the telling anecdote.” — Mark Mazower, The Guardian
“Andrew Roberts, a tenacious archival historian and gifted writer, looks behind the façade of the familiar photographs and published accounts to see how these war leaders actually operated.” — Sir Martin Gilbert, The Evening Standard
“This is an important book which, in its layered references to Waterloo, the Crimea and the Somme, sees Mr. Roberts lay claim to the title of Britain’s finest contemporary military historian.” — The Economist
“The strength of Masters and Commanders lies in the power of the narrative and the fascinating detail used to construct it. Roberts has exploited a rich mine of private papers to fill in missing parts of the story.” — Richard Overy, Literary Review
“Roberts’s account of the war and its intrigues is fresh-filled with new revelations and new analysis. . . . It is both high scholarship and superb writing by a masterful analyst of power and war.” — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Daily Beast
“Masterly. . . . A triumph of vivid description, telling anecdotes, and informed analysis. Roberts’s book reinforces his claim to stand among the foremost British historians of the period.” — Max Hastings, The New York Review of Books
“Masters and Commanders is a magnificently researched, superbly written account of how the US and UK’s top civilian and military leaders overcame mutual suspicions and conflicting priorities to win the war in Europe.” — The New York Post