Volume 56, Number 13 · August 13, 2009
A Very Chilly Victory
By Max Hastings
Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941–1945
by Andrew Roberts
Harper, 674 pp., $35.00
Even in the twenty-first century, almost seventy years after the outbreak of World War II, it is astonishing how much of its history is still written from nationalistic perspectives. Winston Churchill may be forgiven for telling the House of Commons in September 1944, at the height of the conflict, that the battle for Normandy had been 'the greatest and most decisive single battle of the whole war.' But modern historians of every nationality need to see matters more clearly.
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