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- Churchill, Winston,--Military leadership
- Strategy--History--20th century
- Hitler, Adolf,--Military leadership
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns
- Mussolini, Benito,--Military leadership
- World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano),--Military leadership
- Stalin, Joseph,--Military leadership
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| Title Statement | 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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| Alternative Title(s) | Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler: how war made them, and how they made war Strategists |
| Author | O'Brien, Phillips Payson, 1963- |
| Publication | New York: Dutton,[2024]©2024 |
| Extent of Item | xi, 530 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates |
| ISBN | 9781524746483 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07653301 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-495) and index. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Strategy--History--20th century |
| World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns | |
| World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history | |
| By Name | Churchill, Winston,1874-1965--Military leadership |
| Hitler, Adolf,1889-1945--Military leadership | |
| Mussolini, Benito,1883-1945--Military leadership | |
| Roosevelt, Franklin D.(Franklin Delano),1882-1945--Military leadership | |
| Stalin, Joseph,1878-1953--Military leadership | |
