Offers an account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War. This book reveals the role of the problem-solvers and middle-men who made it happen - like Major-General Perry Hobart, who invented the 'funny tanks' which flattened the D-Day beaches.

One of the world's bestselling historians explains how, at a totally practical level, the Allies won WW2, from the invention of the 'funny tanks' which flattened the D-Day beaches to the 'creeping barrage' that sunk the U-boats. 'A fresh perspective on the war' "Sunday Telegraph".