About the Book
The second in the "Commanders" series looks at the greatest conflict of all, spanning the major military and political figures from the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Rumania, South Africa, and the USSR. Around 300 are covered, including most of the high-echelon Nazis as well as such important leaders as: Alanbrooke, Alexander, Arnold, Auchinleck, Badoglio, Bradley, Chiang Kai-shek, Churchill, Clark, Crerar, Cunningham, DeGaulle. Doolittle, Dowding, Eaker, Eisenhower, Fletcher, Halsey, Harris, Hirohito, King, Konev, Kuznetsov, Macarthur, Mao Zedong, Mannerheim, Marshall, Montgomery, Mussolini, Nimitz, Patton, Portal, Rokossovsky, Roosevelt, Shaposhnikov, Sikorsky, Slim, Spaatz, Spruance, Stalin, Sugiyama, Timoshenko, Tito, Tojo, Truman, Vatutin, Wavell, Yamamoto, Yamashita, Vasilevsky, and Zhukov.
About the Author :
A publisher with more than twenty years' experience, Ian Westwell started a writing career ten years ago and has since written more than twenty non-fiction titles, many on military history, his specialist subject.