The strategists Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler : how war made them, and how they made war
"Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist. In The Strategists, Professor Phillip...
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[New York, New York] :
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[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Strategy, war and personality
- Winston Churchill : the making of an imperial strategist
- Joseph Stalin : the making of an ideological strategist
- Franklin Roosevelt : the young maritime strategist
- Benito Mussolini : the birth of a nationalist strategist
- Adolf Hitler : art and war
- Winston Churchill : learning strategic restraint
- Joseph Stalin and the strategy of practicality
- Franklin Roosevelt and the domestic policy of strategy
- Benito Mussolini and bluffing as strategy
- Adolf Hitler : victory and defeat
- Interlude: The interwar years
- Hitler, Stalin, and the Nazi-Soviet pact
- Churchill, Hitler and the Battle of Britain
- Mussolini, Churchill and Greece, 1940-41
- Stalin, Hitler and Barbarossa
- Roosevelt, Hitler and the road to war
- Roosevelt, Churchill, Hitler and the air-sea-super-battlefield
- Mussolini, Churchill, Roosevelt and empire in the Mediterranean
- Hitler, STalin and the Eastern front
- Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin and the cross-channel invasion
- Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill and the post-war world
- Epilogue: The strategists' war.
