The Storm of War

Description

Andrew Roberts’ acclaimed new history has been hailed as the best single-volume record of this epic clash. From the western front to North Africa, from the Baltic to the Far East, he recounts to the account of the war—the terrific system and the individual experience, the fierceness and the gallantry—as at no other time.

Carefully investigated and astonishingly composed, The Storm of War lights up the war’s foremost entertainers, uncovering how their choices molded the course of the contention. En route, Roberts presents stories of the numerous lesser-known people whose encounters structure a panoply of the mental fortitude and generosity, just as the wickedness and savagery, of the Second World War. When the war broke out, both the British and German Admiralties expected that

the incomparable German surface boats would be significant in choosing whether Britain

endures or starved. It was thought by London and Berlin that if these capital

boats could command the Ocean Gap, the New World would be unable, to

receive Churchill’s expression in his ‘battle on the seashores’ discourse, of venturing ‘forward

to the salvage and freedom of the Old’. On the off chance that, then again, the Royal Navy

furthermore, its Canadian and later American partners could sink these gigantic vessels,

the peril was believed to be far less incredible.