Carlo D. Este Livres

The biography delves into the complex personality of a renowned American military figure, revealing the contradictions behind his bold public persona. It is praised for its literate and balanced approach, providing detailed insights without being overly dense. The author, D'Este, offers a fresh perspective on this iconic yet troubled individual, making it a definitive work that enhances the reader's understanding of his life and legacy. Critics acclaim it as a major contribution to military biography, establishing it as an instant classic.

Warlord is the definitive chronicle of Churchill's crucial role as one of the world's most renowned military leaders, from his early adventures on the North-West Frontier of colonial India and the Boer War through his extraordinary service in both world wars. Using extensive, untapped archival materials, Carlo D'Este illuminates Churchill's character as never before, exploring his strategies behind the major military campaigns of World War I and World War II—both his dazzling successes and disastrous failures—while also revealing his tumultuous relationships with his generals and other commanders, including Dwight D. Eisenhower. As riveting as the man it portrays, Warlord is a masterful, unsparing portrait of one of history's most fascinating and influential leaders during what was arguably the most crucial event in human history.

"Bitter Victory" illuminates a chapter of World War II that has lacked a balanced, full-scale treatment until now. In recounting the second-largest amphibious operation in military history, Carlo D'Este for the first time reveals the conflicts in planning and the behind-the-scenes quarrels between top Allied commanders. The book explodes the myth of the Patton-Montgomery rivalry and exposes how Alexander's inept generalship nearly wrecked the campaign. D'Este documents in chilling detail the series of savage battles fought against an overmatched but brilliant foe and how the Germans--against overwhelming odds--carried out one of the greatest strategic withdrawals in history. His controversial narrative depicts for the first time how the Allies bungled their attempt to cut off the Axis retreat from Sicily, turning what ought to have been a great triumph into a bitter victory that later came to haunt the Allies in Italy

The battle for Normandy was the most complex & daring military operation in the history of modern warfare. Two years of intense, detailed planning reached its successful conclusion when the Allied forces took the beaches on D-Day. But the 76-day campaign that followed, the Allies' crucial bid for a toehold in western Europe, was one of the bloodiest of the war, & its true story has been concealed in myth. Step-by-step the reader is taken through the Normandy campaign from the earliest days after Dunkirk when Churchill first considered the idea of a cross-Channel invasion of France, to the Key battles that determined that outcome, with maps explaining clearly the strategy & logistics of each battle. This is military history at its most dramatic, with a cast of characters that includes Montgomery, Rommel, Patton, Bradley & Eisenhower. Decision in Normandy is destined to become the definitive account of a campaign Rommel described as "a terrible blood-letting" & whose outcome became the decisive turning point for the Allied victory.

Vynikající životopis z pera jednoho z nejlepších vojenských historiků současnosti líčí Winstona Churchilla jako vojáka a válečného vůdce, který sice nikdy nedosáhl vyšší hodnosti než podplukovník, avšak nakonec ve funkci předsedy vlády velel vojenským operacím Velké Británie a klíčovým způsobem se podílel na porážce Hitlera, Mussoliniho i Hirohita. Kniha zachycuje Churchillovo vojenské působení od jeho nejranějších dobrodružství na severozápadní frontě koloniální Indie přes búrskou válku až po mimořádně významnou účast v obou světových konfliktech. Životopis Válečný vůdce je stejně strhující jako muž, kterého vykresluje.

Vynikající dvousvazkový životopis z pera jednoho z nejlepších vojenských historiků současnosti líčí Winstona Churchilla jako vojáka a válečného vůdce, který sice nikdy nedosáhl vyšší hodnosti než podplukovník, avšak nakonec ve funkci předsedy vlády velel vojenským operacím Velké Británie a klíčovým způsobem se podílel na porážce Hitlera, Mussoliniho i Hirohita. Kniha zachycuje Churchillovo vojenské působení od jeho nejranějších dobrodružství na severozápadní frontě koloniální Indie přes búrskou válku až po mimořádně významnou účast v obou světových konfliktech. Životopis Válečný vůdce je stejně strhující jako muž, kterého autor vykresluje.