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000338905 1001_ $$aD'Este, Carlo,$$d1936-
000338905 24510 $$aWarlord :$$ba life of Winston Churchill at war, 1874-1945 /$$cCarlo D'Este.
000338905 250__ $$a1st ed.
000338905 260__ $$aNew York :$$bHarper,$$cc2008.
000338905 300__ $$axvi, 845 p., [16] p. of plates :$$bill., maps ;$$c25 cm.
000338905 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000338905 5050_ $$aPrologue : May 10, 1940 -- Toy soldiers -- "A barren and unhappy period of my life" -- Sandhurst -- A young man on the make : the Fourth Queen's Own Hussars -- The jewel of empire : India, 1896-1897 -- A taste of war : the North-West Frontier, 1897 -- Soldier of fortune -- Omdurman -- David versus Goliath -- The Boer War -- The great escapade -- "The red gleam of war" -- Lessons learned -- Star bright -- The odd couple -- "Alarm bells throughout Europe" -- First lord of the admiralty -- Lighting the bonfire -- The architect of war -- Churchill's private army -- "Damn the Dardanelles! They will be our grave" -- The reckoning -- Penance -- "In Flanders fields" -- "Winston's folly" -- "A hopelessly obsolete, old-fashioned warrior" -- The shame of Munich -- "Bring back Churchill" -- "Winston is back" -- Warlord in waiting -- The Norway debacle -- The loneliest man in Britain -- "Action this day" -- Minister of defense -- The central war room -- Disaster in Flanders fields -- Deliverance -- "Don't give way to fear" -- "What a summer to waste on war" -- "Set Europe ablaze" -- London burning -- Wavell on the hot seat -- The president and the "former naval person" -- Mediterranean misadventures -- Disaster in Crete --- The endless desert war -- "Colonel Shrapnel" -- Chickens roosting in the Far East -- The quest for generalship -- Getting it right -- Alamein : the turning point -- Ike -- Torch and Casablanca -- Down the garden path -- Amid the ruins of Carthage -- The strategic air campaign -- Stranding the whale -- Overlord at last -- Summer of discontent -- Victory -- Postscript -- Epilogue : The last farewell--a look back.
000338905 520__ $$aA biography of Winston Churchill's astonishing military career from his youth through World War II.
000338905 60010 $$aChurchill, Winston,$$d1874-1965$$xMilitary leadership.
000338905 650_0 $$aPrime ministers$$zGreat Britain$$vBiography.
000338905 651_0 $$aGreat Britain$$xHistory, Military$$y20th century.
000338905 651_0 $$aGreat Britain$$xHistory, Military$$y19th century.
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