A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the some of greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique strengths - and weaknesses - shaped the course of human history.
Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of international renown whose books include Salisbury- Victorian Titan (winner, the Wolfson Prize for History); Masters and Commanders; and The Storm of War, which reached No. 2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. His most recent book was Napoleon the Great (2014), which won the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon. Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Literature and Arts. He appears regularly on British television and radio and writes for the Sunday Telegraph, Spectator, Literary Review, Mail on Sunday and Daily Telegraph.
Roberts is superbly well-qualified to write about these
extraordinary leaders. Roberts teaches not just through analysis,
as indeed he does, but by example. Each of his chapters is a finely
crafted gem of communication. Roberts's description offers vivid
detail, spare prose, immortal rhetoric, and a touch of humor. His
chapters offer masterly, magnificent portraits of what it takes to
steer an army or a nation through a crisis. Any leader would envy
the chance to have Roberts as his or her speechwriter or Director
of Communications. Every reader can be grateful for such a
thrilling and succinct account of leadership.
*The New Criterion*
A condensation of a wonderful series of lectures Mr Roberts
delivered to the New-York Historical Society ... Among military
historians, Mr Roberts is Britain's crown gem, and his pithy
insights compiled in 'Leadership in War' reflect decades of
diligent, patient study.
*Wall Street Journal*
Meticulously researched and full of revelations, this is a
fascinating read.
*Sun*
Leadership in War is an understated treasure of 2019...a tour de
force of historical portraiture.
*National Review*
Leadership in War has the enjoyable feel of a lively dinner table
conversation.
*New York Times*
illuminating experiences are presented in easily digestible form in
Andrew Roberts's new book, Leadership in War, a collection of nine
portraits of wartime leaders, from Napoleon Bonaparte to Margaret
Thatcher. These portrayals were originally delivered as lectures by
Roberts, a prolific historian of World War II and biographer of
Napoleon and Churchill. The profiles of Napoleon and Dwight D.
Eisenhower are the most salient for business readers, but it is not
difficult to find insight in nearly all of them
*Strategy & Business*
Few authors compare to Andrew Roberts. He dips his pen in the most
eloquent ink to bring to life figures who have heaps of lessons to
teach us
*Bookmarc*
Roberts has a gift for finding the anecdote or quotation which
reveals an essential truth about his subject.
*History Today*
Few authors compare to Andrew Roberts. He dips his pen in the most
eloquent ink to bring to life figures who have heaps of lessons to
teach us
*Bookmarc*
His analyses of the criteria needed for success are succinct and...
convincing. ... The mysteries of leadership in times of conflict
probably evade ultimate explanation, but Roberts, the biographer of
Napoleon and Churchill, does much to throw new light on them,
*Sunday Times*
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