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Sat 06 Jun 2007Decisions, decisions . . .HistoryThere have been so many books in the last few years about events or objects that "changed the world" - drinks, fish, maps, battles, colours, machines, voyages, gigs, and so on - that it would be almost a relief to read a book about something moderately important that altered things a little bit. This new book is about "ten decisions that changed the world". On this occasion there can be no sense of ennui at an overblown subtitle, for the choices here were those made in 1940-1941 by Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill and their contemporaries. When Ian Kershaw writes that "these were indeed fateful decisions - decisions that changed the world", it is hard not to see his point.