PanThe Times (UK)Lincoln’s inclusion would have added welcome depth to this miscellany ... I was often lost as to Roberts’s criteria for a \'great\' military leader ... enthusiasm is not enough: [Roberts\'] lectures have not translated easily into print. He flits over the surface of history and leaves much unnoticed or unexplained. One would have expected something less subjective and more substantial from the author of the outstanding biographies of Lord Salisbury and Churchill. Anyone seeking to understand the complex alchemy of leadership in war should obtain John Keegan’s brilliant 1987 book The Mask of Command.
James Barr
RaveThe TimesBarr describes this transfer of power [from Britain to the United States] in a brilliant, detached and eye-opening narrative ... It is a gripping tale of diplomatic legerdemain, political hypocrisy and, once the intelligence boys got going, derring-do. There are even comic moments when the world of Carry on Spying intruded into high politics.
