The Storm of War

World War II lasted for 2174 days, cost $1.5 trillion and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. Why did it take the course that it did? In The Storm of War, best-selling historian Andrew Roberts follows up his book Masters and Commanders with an in-depth analysis of Axis strategy during World War II, and discusses the reasons behind the Axis defeat. In researching this unique history, Roberts has explored the key battlefields of the war, and uncovered many important yet unpublished documents. He looks at the major figures on both sides of the war, and asks whether, with a different decision-making process and a different strategy, the Axis might even have won. Andrew Roberts is the author of Masters and Commanders and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900. His other books include Napoleon and Wellington, Eminent Churchillians, and Salisbury, which won the Wolfson History Prize. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Roberts writes regularly for The Wall Street Journal. "The Storm of War is a great achievement, an immensely readable, nicely paced feat of historical condensation ... An excellent one-volume history of the war." -- Ian Pindar, the Guardian

World War II lasted for 2174 days, cost $1.5 trillion and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. Why did it take the course that it did? In The Storm of War, best-selling historian Andrew Roberts follows up his book Masters and Commanders with an in-depth analysis of Axis strategy during World War II, and discusses the reasons behind the Axis defeat. In researching this unique history, Roberts has explored the key battlefields of the war, and uncovered many important yet unpublished documents. He looks at the major figures on both sides of the war, and asks whether, with a different decision-making process and a different strategy, the Axis might even have won. Andrew Roberts is the author of Masters and Commanders and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900. His other books include Napoleon and Wellington, Eminent Churchillians, and Salisbury, which won the Wolfson History Prize. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Roberts writes regularly for The Wall Street Journal. "The Storm of War is a great achievement, an immensely readable, nicely paced feat of historical condensation ... An excellent one-volume history of the war." -- Ian Pindar, the Guardian