Earlier this month the West honored the 80th anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944. The ceremonies commemorated the Allied invasion of Nazi Germany's occupied Europe, which together with the then Soviet Union battering Germany from the east, would culminate in Germany's surrender almost a year later in May 1945. The war with Japan would end soon after, in August 1945.
Hundreds of books, documentaries, and movies have been written or produced about World War II. Most of them cover the battles, but equally important are stories about the leaders who planned and coordinated it all, from their detailed war plans and strategies to keeping it all together. That includes not just generals and admiral such as Eisenhower, Montgomery, MacArthur, Patten, Halsey, and Nimitz, but the non-uniformed leaders at the top, such as U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. History is not inevitable, and swap out any of these men at the top and the outcome could well have been totally different. Source