The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War

By Andrew Roberts

The past year I read Andrew Roberts’ biography of Winston Churchill, entitled Walking With Destiny.  It was certainly the best biography of Churchill that I have read, and many others regard it in the same way.  So when I became aware that he had written a one-volume history of World War II, The Storm of War, I definitely wanted to read it also.  It was even better than I hoped. 

Roberts, with a Ph.D. in history from Cambridge, is a superb scholar, but he can also write!  He writes a clear, compelling, at times riveting, story.

This is not a brief book, coming in at over 600 pages.  If you want to understand an overview of World War II with one volume, this is a superb resource.

There are not many history books in which I think to myself, “I need to read this book again.”  But that’s exactly the way I feel with The Storm of War.