THE STORM OF WAR: A NEW HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Author: Andrew Roberts

Publisher: Allen Lane, Penguin Press

Year published: 2009

Pagination: 712pp. Black and white photos, extensive bibliography.

Condition: Near fine in d/w

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The author analyses how Axis strategy evolved. Examining the Second World War on every front, Roberts asks whether, with a different decision-making process and a different strategy, the Axis might even have won. Were those German generals who blamed everything on Hitler after the war correct, or were they merely scapegoating their former Führer once he was safely beyond defending himself? In researching this history Roberts has visited many of the key battlefield and wartime sites of Russia, France, Italy, Germany and the Far East. The book is full of illuminating sidelights on the principle actors that bring the ways in which they reached decisions into fresh focus