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Книга известного военного историка Эндрю Робертса, изобилует деталями и подробностями, показывающими в новом свете характеры и логику поведения главных действующих лиц мировой войны с обеих сторон конфликта. Автор, используя уникальные, ранее не публиковавшиеся документы, рассказывает о малоизвестных героях, на поле боя определявших исход сражений, о доблести, отваге и мужестве одних, о подлости и низости других, об ужасах и изуверствах, сделавших эту войну самой кровавой в истории человечества.

From "Britain's finest military historian" (The Economist) comes a magisterial new history of World War II and the flawed axis strategy that led to their defeat. The 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 conflict. From the western front to North Africa, from the Baltic to the Far East, he tells the story of the war—the grand…

On 2 August 1944 Winston Churchill mocked Adolf Hitler in the House of Commons by the rank he had reached in the First World War. ?Russian success has been somewhat aided by the strategy of Herr Hitler, of Corporal Hitler,? Churchill jibed. ?Even military idiots find it difficult not to see some faults in his actions.? Andrew Roberts?s previous book Masters and Commanders studied the creation of Allied grand strategy; The Storm of War now 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.…