His book is timely and a triumph Roberts manages to convey all the reader needs to know about two men to whom battalions of biographies have been devoted EVENING STANDARDAdolf Hitler and Winston Churchill were two totally opposite leaders both in what they stood for and in the way in which they seemed to lead Awardwinning historian Andrew Roberts examines their different styles of leadership and draws parallels with rulers from other eras He also looks at the way Hitler and Churchill estimated each other as leaders and how it affected the outcome of the war In a world that is as dependent on leadership as any earlier age HITLER AND CHURCHILL asks searching questions about our need to be led In doing so Andrew Roberts forces us to reexamine the way that we look at those who take decisions for us