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Masters and Commanders

How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945

Masters and Commanders( )
Author: Roberts, Andrew
ISBN:978-0-06-122857-5
Publication Date:May 2009
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Harper
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $35.00
Book Description:

"Masterly. . . . A triumph of vivid description, telling anecdotes, and informed analysis.”
—The New York Review of Books

"Britain's finest contemporary military historian."
— The Economist

An epic joint biography of four titanic figures—a President, a Prime Minister, and two Generals—who shaped the grand strategy of the Allies during World War II.

Author Biography
Roberts, Andrew (Author)


Andrew Roberts was born on January 13, 1963 in Hammersmith, England. He studied at Gonville and Caius College and earned his B.A. degree in Modern History in 1985. He began his post-graduate career in corporate finance as an investment banker and private company director with the London merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co. He published his first historical book in 1991.

He went on to become a public commentator appearing in several periodicals such as The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator. Roberts himself is best known for his 2009 non-fiction work The Storm of War A look at the Second World War covering historical factors such as Hitler's rise to power and the organisation of Nazi Germany, the book received the British Army Military Book of the Year Award for 2010. In 2018 his work, Churchill: Walking with Destiny, made the Bestseller List.

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