The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of distinction between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
-- Sir William Francis Butler
"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.