![]() The first half of the book takes us through the lives of the two men up to 1939, showing how both men had a strong sense of destiny and mission-indeed both put out a sort of mission statement (Churchill in his 1900 novel Savrola Hitler in his Mein Kampf). ![]() Roberts, the author of the prize-winning Salisbury: Victorian Titan and, more recently, the highly acclaimed Napoleon and Wellington, sets out to identify the ingredients of successful leadership in peacetime and wartime. To what extent did the outcome of the Second World War turn on the two very different personalities who led the two major combatant nations? This intriguing question is the subject of Andrew Roberts' Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership, published to tie in with the television series of the same name. ![]()
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