Turning Points

Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941, by Ian Kershaw (Penguin, 656 pp., $35)

IAN KERSHAW is the author of a magisterial biography of Hitler, in which he showed how the will-power of that solitary malign character was enough to overthrow the European state system, and lead to the deaths of tens of millions.

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David Pryce-Jones

David Pryce-Jones (1936–2025) was a British author and commentator and served as a senior editor of National Review.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941, by Ian Kershaw (Penguin, 656 pp., $35)

IAN KERSHAW is the author of a magisterial biography of Hitler, in which he showed how the will-power of that solitary malign character was enough to overthrow the European state system, and lead to the deaths of tens of millions.