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Masters and Commanders de Andrew Roberts

Masters and Commanders

Autor Andrew Roberts
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 mai 2009

Relevanța lucrării Masters and Commanders pentru studenții la istorie militară și pentru profesioniștii din domeniul studiilor strategice rezidă în capacitatea sa de a demonta mitul unei alianțe occidentale monolitice. Andrew Roberts propune o examinare riguroasă a modului în care marea strategie a celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial a fost modelată nu doar de inamic, ci de fricțiunile constante dintre patru personalități titanice: Churchill, Roosevelt și comandanții lor militari, Brooke și Marshall. Remarcăm modul în care autorul utilizează surse primare anterior nepublicate, inclusiv stenogramele discuțiilor din Cabinetul de Război britanic, pentru a reconstitui tensiunile care au precedat deciziile majore de pe front. Spre deosebire de The Supreme Commander de Stephen E. Ambrose, care se concentrează pe leadership-ul diplomatic și militar al lui Eisenhower, volumul de față este o analiză a eșaloanelor superioare de comandă, unde politicul și militarul se intersectează violent. Găsim în această carte o perspectivă mult mai nuanțată asupra procesului decizional decât în Command de Al Murray; în timp ce Murray oferă o analiză a stilurilor de leadership individual, Roberts construiește o narațiune despre interdependență și compromis strategic. Stilul este unul precis, documentat, evitând speculațiile și ancorând fiecare dispută în contextul logistic și politic al vremii. Este o lucrare esențială pentru înțelegerea mecanismelor de comandă și control într-un conflict global, demonstrând că victoria a fost rezultatul unui proces istovitor de negociere între aliați cu viziuni adesea divergente.

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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 este indispensabilă pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă arhitectura victoriei aliate dincolo de câmpul de luptă. Cititorul câștigă o viziune rară asupra „războiului din spatele războiului”, învățând cum se gestionează coalițiile complexe și cum orgoliile liderilor pot influența cursul istoriei. Este o lecție magistrală de strategie și leadership politic, fundamentată pe dovezi istorice noi.

Despre autor

Andrew Roberts este un istoric și biograf britanic de renume internațional, recunoscut pentru expertiza sa în istoria modernă și militară. A fost distins cu premii prestigioase precum Wolfson History Prize pentru lucrarea „Salisbury: Victorian Titan”. Autorul s-a impus ca o autoritate în studiul liderilor celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial prin volume precum „Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership”, care a stat la baza unei serii documentare BBC. Stilul său combină rigoarea academică cu o capacitate narativă remarcabilă, fiind considerat de publicația Economist unul dintre cei mai fini istorici militari contemporani.

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