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An epic joint biography, Masters and Commanders explores the degree to which the course of the Second World War turned on the relationships and temperaments of four of the strongest personalities of the twentieth century: political masters Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt and the commanders of their armed forces, General Sir Alan Brooke and General George C. Marshall. Each was exceptionally tough-willed and strong-minded, and each was certain that only he knew best how to win the war. Andrew Roberts, Britains finest contemporary military historian (The Economist), traces the mutual suspicion and admiration, the rebuffs and the charm, the often-explosive disagreements and wary reconciliations, and he helps us to appreciate the motives and imperatives of these key leaders as they worked tirelessly in the monumental struggle to destroy Nazism.
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Masters and Commanders
How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 19411945
Andrew Roberts
For my wife, Susan
Contents
Enchantment
First Encounters: 1880June 1940
Collecting Allies: June 1940December 1941
Egos in Arcadia: December 1941February 1942
Brooke and Marshall Establish Dominance: FebruaryMarch 1942
Gymnast Falls, Bolero Retuned: FebruaryApril 1942
Engagement
Marshalls Mission to London: April 1942
The Commanders at Argonaut: AprilJune 1942
The Masters at Argonaut: June 1942
Torch Reignited: July 1942
The Most Perilous Moment of the War: JulyNovember 1942
The Mediterranean Garden Path: November 1942January 1943
The Casablanca Conference: January 1943
The Hard Underbelly of Europe: JanuaryJune 1943
The Overlordship of Overlord: JuneAugust 1943
Estrangement
From the St Lawrence to the Pyramids: AugustNovember 1943
Eureka! at Teheran: NovemberDecember 1943
Anzio, Anvil and Culverin: December 1943May 1944
D-Day and Dragoon: MayAugust 1944
Octagon and Tolstoy: AugustDecember 1944
Autumn Mist: December 1944February 1945
Yalta Requiem: FebruaryMay 1945
The Riddles of the War The Major Wartime Conferences Glossary of Codenames The Selection of Codenames
Sketch of Churchill by General Brooke on No. 10 writing paper, made during a War Cabinet meeting in March 1942
Frontispiece: A sketch of Churchill by Alan Brooke (Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, Kings College, LondonRef: Alanbrooke 6/4/15. Reproduced by kind permission of The Viscount Alanbrooke)
Preface: A page from Lawrence Burgis account of the War Cabinet meeting of 10 December 1941 (Churchill Archives Centre, Papers of Laurence Burgis, BRGS 2/10, 10 December 1941)
1. The Masters and Commanders at the Casablanca Conference, January 1943 (reproduced by kind permission of Mrs Joan Bright Astley)
2. Pershing and Marshall, 1919 (courtesy of the George C. Marshall Research Library, Lexington, Virginia)
3. Alan Brooke in the uniform of the Royal Horse Artillery, 1910 (Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, Kings College, LondonRef: Alanbrooke 13/1)
4. Churchill arriving at Downing Street, 15 May 1940 (Getty Images)
5. Roosevelt addressing Congress, 8 December 1941 (Getty Images)
6. Churchill and Roosevelt on board USS Augusta , 9 August 1941 (Topfoto)
7. Churchill and Roosevelt on board HMS Prince of Wales , 14 August 1941 (AP/PA Photos)
8. Marshall, Churchill and Henry L. Stimson, 24 June 1942 (Getty Images)
9. Alan Brookes lunch for Marshall at the Savoy Hotel, July 1942 (David E. Scherman/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
10. Harry Hopkins, Mark Clark, Roosevelt and Eisenhower in North Africa, 31 January 1943 (Bettmann/Corbis)
11. Eisenhower and Marshall in Algiers, 3 June 1943 (Corbis)
12. Churchill recuperating in Carthage, Christmas Day 1943 (Bettmann/Corbis)
13. Patton, Bradley and Montgomery in France (Corbis)
14. The Combined Chiefs of Staff at Casablanca, January 1943 (US Army Military History Institute)
15. Churchill, Eden and others at Allied HQ in North Africa, 8 June 1943 (Getty Images)
16. Combined Chiefs of Staff meeting at the First Quebec Conference, August 1943 (US Army Military History Institute)
17. Second Quebec Conference, September 1944 (reproduced by kind permission of Mrs Joan Bright Astley)
18. Churchill and Roosevelt at the Second Quebec Conference, September 1944 (reproduced by kind permission of Mrs Joan Bright Astley)
19. John Dill, Andrew Cunningham, Alan Brooke, Charles Portal and Hastings Ismay at Quebec, 1944 (reproduced by kind permission of Mrs Joan Bright Astley)
20. British Joint Planning Staff, Second Quebec Conference, September 1944 (reproduced by kind permission of Mrs Joan Bright Astley)
21. Allen Tupper Brown (courtesy of George Marshall Research Library, Lexington, Virginia)
22. Alan Brooke and Barney Charlesworth, October 1941 (Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, Kings College, LondonRef: Alanbrooke 13/3)
23. Churchill and Jan Smuts in Cairo, August 1942 (Bettmann/Corbis)
24. Hastings Ismay, 1942 (George Karger/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
25. Albert C. Wedemeyer with Marshall (George Lacks/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
26. Archibald Wavell and Joseph W. Stilwell, New Delhi (William Vandivert/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
27. The British Chiefs of Staff, April 1945 (Jack Esten/Getty Images)
28. The US Joint Chiefs of Staff (Getty Images)
29. Lawrence Burgis and Leslie Hollis in the Cabinet War Rooms (from War at the Top by James Leasor)
30. John Kennedy (photograph by Walter Stoneman. National Portrait Gallery, London)
31. Thomas Handy (Getty Images)
In the three years that it has taken me to research and write this book, there have been a large number of people who have been tremendously generous to me, especially with their time, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them.
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