The Storm of War is Andrew Roberts’s new history of the Second World War, taking the reader from Hitler’s invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 to the surrender of Japan 6 years and one day later. It uses new information taken from The Sayer Archive, and seeks to answer the central question: Could the Axis have won the War, and if so, why didn’t they?

‘Roberts is a superb narrator and negotiates the wartime labyrinth wearing his learning lightly. The central argument is that Hitler lost the war because he let his ideological imperatives overtake his military judgement. The character sketches are pitch perfect, and the historical judgement cool and sound. It may well be his masterpiece.’
Dan Jones, The Times History Books of the Year

'Andrew Roberts achieves a marvel of concision in producing a splendidly written, comprehensive new history of the greatest conflict in history, The Storm of War - particularly good in its insights into Axis strategy'.
Sir Ian Kershaw, The Guardian Books of the Year