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Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941–1945 Audiobook
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An epic joint biography, Masters and Commanders explores the degree to which the course of the Second World War turned on the relationships and temperaments of four of the strongest personalities of the twentieth century: political masters Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt and the commanders of their armed forces, General Sir Alan Brooke and General George C. Marshall.
Each was exceptionally tough-willed and strong-minded, and each was certain that only he knew best how to win the war.
Andrew Roberts, “Britain’s finest contemporary military historian” (The Economist), traces the mutual suspicion and admiration, the rebuffs and the charm, the often-explosive disagreements and wary reconciliations, and he helps us to appreciate the motives and imperatives of these key leaders as they worked tirelessly in the monumental struggle to destroy Nazism.
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“When all the arguments have been forgotten, this central fact will remain. The two nations fought a single war, and their quarrels were the quarrels of brothers.”
— Washington Post
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“Roberts captures not only the personalities of World War II’s masters and commanders but the dynamics of their relations.”
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“Roberts has exploited a rich mine of private papers to fill in missing parts of the story.”
— Literary Review
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About Andrew Roberts
Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian whose numerous books include the New York Times bestsellers Churchill: Walking With Destiny and Napoleon: A Life, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Salisbury: Victorian Titan, winner of the Wolfson Prize for History. He is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Literature and the Royal Historical Society and a Trustee of the International Churchill Society. He is visiting professor at the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London, and the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
About John Lee
John Lee is the winner of numerous Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. He has twice won acclaim as AudioFile’s Best Voice in Fiction & Classics. He also narrates video games, does voice-over work, and writes plays. He is an accomplished stage actor and has written and coproduced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit. He played Alydon in the 1963–64 Doctor Who serial The Daleks.