{"product_id":"the-storm-of-war-a-new-history-of-the-second-world-war-isbn-9780061228599","title":"The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Roberts'spopulist approach makes for a rollicking good read and never comes at theexpense of accuracy. His mastery of the huge variety of subjects is trulyimpressive and his ability to marshal these subjects into a single compellingnarrative stunning.\" —\u003cem\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHailedby \u003cem\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/em\u003e as “Britain’s finest military historian” forbestsellers such as \u003cem\u003eMasters and Commanders\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWaterloo\u003c\/em\u003e, AndrewRoberts offers a magisterial new history of World War II and the Axis strategythat led the Germans and Japanese to their eventual defeat. Perfect for readershoping to gain new insight into WWII’s pivotal battles and campaigns, fromDunkirk to D-Day, \u003cem\u003eThe Storm of War \u003c\/em\u003eis a powerful, penetrating, andcompulsively readable examination of the causes, currents, and consequences ofthe Second World War. | \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \"Britain's finest military historian\" (\u003cem\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/em\u003e) comes a magisterial new history of World War II and the flawed axis strategy that led to their defeat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion, and claimed the lives of more than 50 million people. What were the factors that affected the war's outcome? Why did the Axis lose? And could they, with a different strategy, have won? Andrew Roberts's acclaimed new history has been hailed as the finest single-volume account of this epic con?ict. From the western front to North Africa, from the Baltic to the Far East, he tells the story of the war—the grand strategy and the individual experience, the cruelty and the heroism—as never before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn researching this magnificently vivid history, Roberts walked many of the key battlefields and wartime sites in Russia, France, Italy, Germany, and the Far East, and drew on a number of never-before-published documents, such as a letter from Hitler's director of military operations explaining the reasoning behind the Führer's order to halt the Panzers outside Dunkirk—a delay that enabled British forces to evacuate. Roberts illuminates the principal actors on both sides and analyzes how they reached critical decisions. He also presents the tales of many little-known individuals whose experiences form a panoply of the extraordinary courage and self-sacrifice, as well as the terrible depravity and cruelty, of the Second World War. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeticulously researched and masterfully written, \u003cem\u003eThe Storm of War\u003c\/em\u003e gives a dramatic account of this momentous event and shows in remarkable detail why the war took the course it did.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“The best full history of World War II yet written.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimon Sebag Montefiore, The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Elegantly balances fact, thought and fresh, clear prose. . . . Roberts has set a high bar for future historians of mankind’s greatest bloodbath; Roberts splendidly weaves a human tragedy into a story of war’s remorseless statistics.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Andrew Roberts has produced what Gen. George Patton might call ‘a helluva book’—the first totally readable one-volume history of World War II, a literary and historical blitzkrieg, propelled by strong, positive prose, written with concision yet a wealth of detail, and supplied with an arsenal of sources.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In one irresistibly readable book, Roberts has done what I thought was impossible--given us the whole bloody second world war from the brass buttons of the generals down to the mud-filled trenches and stretching across the globe.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTina Brown, Newsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Roberts’s narrative gifts are such that it is almost impossible to read his retelling of these nightmares without some feeling of encountering the new. No history book can ever truly be definitive, but this comes close. Roberts never loses sight of the human side of this epic.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Roberts is a first-rate historian. He has a sharp eye for a good subject and a knack of getting to its heart. The second world war, which cost more than 50 million lives, has a perennial fascination that Roberts conveys through an admirably lucid narrative.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePiers Brendon, The Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A magnificent book;It manages to be distinctive but not eccentric, comprehensive in scope but not cramped by detail, giving due weight both to the extraordinary personalities and to the blind economic and physical forces involved.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Roberts is a great historian because of a rare triune mastery: of the movement of history, in both its broad sweep and particular revelatory detail; a felicitous prose style and gift for narrative; and a commanding moral vision.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoger Kimball, The Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Gripping. . . . splendid history. A brilliantly clear and accessible account of the war in all its theaters. Roberts’s prose is unerringly precise and strikingly vivid. It is hard to imagine a better-told military history of World War II.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimothy Snyder, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With his new book on the Second World War, British historian Andrew Roberts has not only written the single best history of that conflict but has also claimed his place as one of our top historians.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Korda, The Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Andrew Roberts achieves a marvel of concision in producing a splendidly written, comprehensive new history of the greatest conflict in history, \u003ci\u003eThe Storm of War\u003c\/i\u003e—particularly good in its insights into Axis strategy.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSir Ian Kershaw, The Guardian, Books of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In what might be his best book yet, Roberts gives us the war as seen from the other side of the hill. 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