Название: Warlords: An extraordinary re-creation of World War II through the eyes and minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt and StalinАвтор: Joanna Potts and Simon Berthon
Издательство: Lume Books
Год: 2020
Страниц: 466
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.1 MB
Warlords recreates in forensic and gripping detail the extraordinary mind games between Churchill, Hitler, Stalin and Roosevelt as World War Two unfolded day by day.
In a unique combination of innovative style and thorough scholarship, Warlords tells the story of World War II through the lives of the four great war leaders: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt.
While their nations fought battles with weapons, the four warlords of the twentieth century fought a war of the mind. Structured along the lines of a cinematic thriller, rapidly cutting from one man to the next, the book takes us blow by blow as they try to outthink and outfight each other. These encounters are told on a day-by-day, even hour-by-hour basis, affording unparalleled insights into parallel actions.
Moving from Whitehall and Washington to the Wolf's Lair and the Kremlin, Warlords documents the psychological battles among the leaders and shows how their thoughts and actions changed history.
This book unashamedly takes the view that, in the war of 1939–45, the personal decisions of the four titans at its heart also dictated its outbreak, its course and its consequences. Hitler alone decided to invade Poland; in the summer of 1940 his mental processes alone led to the turn against the Soviet Union. Stalin – no one else – made a pact with Hitler; it was his psychological and strategic vision which concluded that Hitler would not invade the Soviet Union in 1941 and left his country defenceless. In the summer of 1940 there would probably have been a different outcome if Halifax, not Churchill, had become Prime Minister on that fateful day of 10 May. And however much Roosevelt trimmed and tacked before he was finally hurled into war, it was he who decided that Nazi Germany, not Japan, was enemy number one; and he who took the personal gamble that unlimited generosity was the way to win Stalin’s collaboration in creating a new post-imperial world of peace and free nations.
These four men stood at the head of the 20th century’s dominant ideologies as they collided in the Second World War: totalitarianism of right and left, liberal democracy, social democracy, European colonialism and economic imperialism. In the war between these ideologies tens of millions of people fought and died. This book is about the heart of that conflict: the ever-changing relationships of the four warlords and their war of the mind.
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