MASTERS AND COMMANDERS
Book ID/图书代码： 02630508B25593
English Summary/英文概要： "Masters and Commanders" describes how four titanic figures shaped the grand strategy of the West during the Second World War. Why, when the most direct route from Britain to Germany was through north-western France, did the western allies first launch assaults on North Africa, Sicily and Rome? Why, if D-Day was intended to be the start of the Allies’ great thrust into Germany, did four hundred thousand men land five hundred miles to the south, in southern France, two months later? Why did the Allies not take Berlin, Vienna or Prague, and allow the Iron Curtain to descend where it did?One of the aims of the book is to show the degree to which the answers to these and many other key riddles of the Second World War turned on the personalities and relationships between two political masters - Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt - and the military commanders of their armed forces - the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Sir Alan Brooke, and the US Army Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall. In reconstructing the debates between these four principals and many of the other leading senior Allied figures, Roberts draws upon the private papers of nearly seventy contemporaries and on verbatim accounts of Churchill’s War Cabinet meetings never before reproduced in book form. The result is a strikingly intimate and enjoyable account, which recreates with dramatic immediacy the atmosphere, debates and manoeuvrings through which Allied grand strategy was forged, and shows clearly the impact of personality upon history.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书主要介绍了二战时期的两大政治人物丘吉尔首相和罗斯福总统，两位军事指挥官- Alan Brooke 和George C. Marshall，还有将近七十位同时代的历史人物。详细描述了丘吉尔的战争内阁会议，之前从未以书的形式出现过。并且重现了当时同盟国大战略的讨论和操纵。清晰地展现了人物性格对历史的影响，战略与政治之间相互作用，作者对二战时期美国和英国的战略关系的阐述是无法替代的。 (RY)
Awards/获奖情况：’Roberts displays a profound understanding of the interactions between strategy and politics, and his interpretation of British/US strategic relations between 1941 and 1945 is unlikely to be superseded.’
--Financial Times, Vernon Bogdanor
’The strength of Masters and Commanders lies in the power of the narrative and the fascinating detail used to construct it ... Roberts has a shrewd grasp of the ins and outs of decision making’
`This is an important book which ... sees Mr Roberts lay claim to the title of Britain’s finest contemporary military historian.’
’Couched in elegant prose, this book is a masterpiece of robust historical analysis, steeped in scholarship and alive to every nuance of personality’
About the Author/作者介绍： 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.
安德鲁 罗勃特曾在剑桥大学现代历史学系取得过第一名的好成绩，从１９９１年他的作品《哈里法克斯勋爵》和《忠诚的狐狸》出版发行以来，他就一直是一个专业的历史学家。他现在住在伦敦的科奈斯布雷居，有两个孩子。他的《索尔兹伯里勋爵》在２０００年获得了沃尔夫森历史学奖。
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