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The Strategists : Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--how War Made Them and How They Made War / Phillips Payson O'Brien.

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ISBN: 9781524746483
ISBN: 1524746487
Physical Description: xi, 530 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : Dutton, [2024]
Copyright: ©2024
Bibliography, etc.: Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-495) and index.
Formatted 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.