Hitler and Churchill2003

What is leadership? What are the secrets of the phenomenon by which one person can lead millions -- sometimes to salvation, sometimes to destruction? Is leadership innate, or can it be learned? Above all, are there any techniques to leadership that can be applied whatever the message the leader wants to convey? By choosing Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill, two totally opposite leaders -- both in what they stood for and in the way in which they seemed to lead -- award-winning historian Andrew Roberts examines the phenomenon of political and military leadership, and comes to some fascinating and provoking conclusions. With an introduction and conclusion that draw fascinating parallels with leaders from other eras, and by incisively examining those aspects of leadership that Hitler and...