The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War

“Roberts’s book is tightly written, every page packed with terse comment, well-organised facts and, often, telling details. Engrossing to read.”|“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.”|“Andrew Roberts’s latest offering is a sparkling addition to the groaning shelves. Roberts offers refreshing judgments on the politicians and commanders in lively prose and his denunciation of the murder of millions of Jews is as measured as it is moving.”|#x1C;Andrew Roberts achieves a marvel of concision in producing a splendidly written, comprehensive new history of the greatest conflict in history, <i>The Storm of War</i>#x14;particularly good in its insights into Axis strategy.#x1D|“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.”|“In what might be his best book yet, Roberts gives us the war as seen from the other side of the hill. He has the knack of making complex military operations comprehensible and salting the grand strategic sweep with vignettes of how it felt to be a soldier.”

Author: Andrew Roberts

Language: English

Edition: 1

Binding: Hardcover

Pages: 712

Publisher: Harper

Publication Date: 2011-05-17