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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 941.082092
EAN: 9780060575731
ISBN: 0060575735
Label: Harper
Manufacturer: Harper
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 864
Publication Date: November 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Studio: Harper

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:


Carlo D'Este's brilliant new biography examines Winston Churchill through the prism of his military service as both a soldier and a warlord: a descendant of Marlborough who, despite never having risen above the rank of lieutenant colonel, came eventually at age sixty-five to direct Britain's military campaigns as prime minister and defeated Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito for the democracies. 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.



Even though Churchill became one of the towering political leaders of the twentieth century, his childhood ambition was to be a soldier. Using extensive, untapped archival materials, D'Este reveals important and untold observations from Churchill's personal physician, as well as other colleagues and family members, in order to illuminate his character as never before. Warlord explores Churchill's 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.






Rating: - Churchill as Warlord and human being


After finishing this book you will know more about the complex man Churchill really was than most other biographies. The book is the product of excellent research and ability to make sensible and fearless judgments
about character without bias in either direction.

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Rating: - A different look at Churchill
This is a well-written and engaging account of Churchill's life as a soldier and military director. There are surprising details - such as his role as an active defender in the siege of Antwerp during the first World War, and the fact that he was the original inspiration behind the creation of the tank (already well known...) and also of the British airforce (I didn't know that!). His failings as well as his strengths are detailed with laudable good balance. All-in-all an excellent addition to the ... Read More

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Rating: - A good read, but overly glorified.
This is a very well written book of Churchill. However much like many other biographies of Churchill, the basic facts of the man's life just don't agree with the authors' final conclusions. Granted D'este does present a very complex picture of the man and his successes and numerous failures. And yet, D'este intentionally ignores the more controversial issues of Churchill's alcoholism, his incessant warmongering, and his inability to learn from his past mistakes. With Churchill and similiar to several ... Read More

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Rating: - Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill
Carlo D'este has written what must be the definitive account of Winston Churchill from his earliest days of soldiering at Omdurman, the Boer War, WWI and through WWII. He finds Churchill's micro-management style both praiseworthy and damning particularly in the Dardanelles campaign in WWI and British intervention in Greece in WWII. Throughout his life Churchill was not one to easily backdown or be cowed by his betters. Indeed D'este concludes that there was no one else during WWII in British politics ... Read More

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Rating: - Warlord
Buy this book only if you're interested in every caning Churchill received and every train stop he made. The tiny print and the density of trivial information stopped me after the first chapters. Better organization and editing might have made this book valuable.

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