Roberts identifies two political "Masters" and two military "Commanders" who stood at the center of the Anglo-American alliance:
The British Chief of the Imperial General Staff, a "tough-guy" who often had to keep Churchill on track and favored a cautious, indirect approach. Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the...
The core of the book details the friction between the British and American approaches to the war: Roberts identifies two political "Masters" and two military
Marshall and the Americans pushed for a cross-channel invasion (Operation Overlord) as early as 1942 or 1943. Churchill and Brooke, wary of a disaster like Dunkirk, successfully advocated for "softening up" the enemy first via North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. wary of a disaster like Dunkirk