Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945 - Softcover

D'Este, Carlo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060575743 ISBN 13: 9780060575748

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2009

Synopsis

As riveting as the man it portrays, Warlord is a masterful, unsparing portrait of Winston Churchill, one of history's most fascinating and influential leaders. Carlo D'Este's definitive chronicle of Churchill's crucial role in the major military campaigns of the 20th century, Warlord uses extensive, untapped archival materials to provide "a very human look at Churchill's lifelong fascination with soldiering, war, and command." (Washington Post)

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Product Description:

Warlord D'Este's brilliant new biography examines Winston Churchill through the prism of his military service as both a soldier and a warlord. As riveting as the man it portrays, "Warlord" is a masterful, unsparing portrait of one of history's most fascinating and influential leaders.

Review:

"Winston Churchill's life spanned the last decades of the British Empire, and to read Carlo D'Este's enjoyable new biography is to recall the sequence of disasters that befell Britain between the final days of the Victorian era and its brush with extinction in World War II."--Robert Kagan, The New York Times Book Review

"The many biographies of Winston Churchill have tended to paint him from a political perspective. In his new book, military historian Carlo D'Este shifts the focus onto Churchill the military leader and how his passion for wartime endeavors led to the improbable British victory in the Allied cause."--History Wire

"D'Este astutely lauds Churchill's soldierly courage but questions how Churchill-the-politician acted as, in effect, an operational general."--Booklist (starred review)

"Carlo D'Este, among our very best military historians, has found in Winston Churchill a subject worthy of his talent. Warlord takes the familiar subject of Churchill's amazing life and makes it glitter anew."--Rick Atkinson

"Masterful. . . . D'Este provides a blow by blow on all of the events of World War II. He is especially good at rendering the devastation Britain faced during the Blitz and the preparations for the Normandy Invasion."--The Chicago Sun-Times

"Epic. . . . A briliantly exciting narrative. . . . D'Este has given us, finally, the lion not only in winter, but at war: impetuous, brazen, misguided, but indefatigable, indomitable, and magnanimous: the greatest and most energetic generalissimo of the 20th century."--Nigel Hamilton, The Boston Globe

"Carlo d'Este, one of the finest historians of the Second World War, brings to his new book all his skills as a military analyst. Even those who think Churchill's life familiar will find this a wonderfully stimulating study."--Max Hastings

"An engaging narrative. . . . Well-researched, balanced, and highly readable. . . . Carlo D'Este provides us with a very human look at Churchill's lifelong fascination with soldiering, war, and command . . . with an eye for colorful quotation and telling anecdote."--The Washington Post

Winston Churchill s life spanned the last decades of the British Empire, and to read Carlo D Este s enjoyable new biography is to recall the sequence of disasters that befell Britain between the final days of the Victorian era and its brush with extinction in World War II. --Robert Kagan, The New York Times Book Review"

Epic. . . . A briliantly exciting narrative. . . . D Este has given us, finally, the lion not only in winter, but at war: impetuous, brazen, misguided, but indefatigable, indomitable, and magnanimous: the greatest and most energetic generalissimo of the 20th century. --Nigel Hamilton, The Boston Globe"

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0060575743
• ISBN 13: 9780060575748
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 880