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010      2008009272
020    9780060575731 |qacid-free paper
020    0060575735 |qacid-free paper
035    (OCoLC)ocn179806754
035    145979
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050 00 DA566.9.C5 |bD47 2008
100 1  D'Este, Carlo, |d1936-
245 10 Warlord : |ba life of Winston Churchill at war, 1874-1945 / |cCarlo D'Este.
250    First edition.
264  1 New York : |bHarper, |c[2008]
264  4  |c©2008
300    xvi, 845 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations, maps ; |c25 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 795-807) and index.
520    A biography of Winston Churchill's astonishing military career from his youth through World War II.
505 0  Prologue : 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.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
600 10 Churchill, Winston, |d1874-1965 |xMilitary leadership.
651  0 Great Britain |xHistory, Military |y20th century.
651  0 Great Britain |xHistory, Military |y19th century.
650  0 Prime ministers |zGreat Britain |vBiography.
655  7 Biographies. |2lcgft
852 0   |bstacks |hDA566.9.C5 |iD47 2008