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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 draws fascinating parallels
with leaders from other eras, and by incisively examining
those aspects of leadership that Hitler and Churchill had
in common, Roberts comes to a series of conclusions about
the practice of leadership that are as relevant today as they
were before and during the Second World War. He also looks
at the way Hitler and Churchill estimated each other as leaders,
and how it affected the outcome of the conflict.
This
groundbreaking book accompanies Roberts’s BBC landmark
history series for 2003, Secrets of Leadership, and -
in a
world that is as dependent on leadership as any earlier age
- it asks searching questions about our need to be led.
In
doing so, Roberts forces us to re-examine the way that we
look at those who take decisions for us.
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