Warlord
- Author Carlo D'Este
- Narrator Tom Weiner
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 2 July 2009
- Run Time 30 hours and 5 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, True war and combat stories.
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What to expect
Warlordis the definitive chronicle of Winston 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.
Carlo D'Este's brilliant biography examines 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.
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,Warlordis 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.
Critics Review
u201cCarlo Du2019Este, among our very best military historians, has found in Winston Churchill a subject worthy of his talent. Warlordu00a0takes the familiar subject of Churchillu2019s amazing life and makes it glitter anew.u201d
u201cCarlo Du2019Este, one of the finest historians of the Second World War, brings to his new book all his skills as a military analyst. The authoru2019s judgments are acute and unsparing as ever, though his admiration for his subject never flags. Even those who think Churchillu2019s life familiar will find this a wonderfully stimulating study.u201d
u201cCarlo Du2019Este focuses a brilliant spotlight on Winston Churchill the warrior and warlord. This is no hagiography but a warts-and-all account of the military side of a complex man whose impact on his nation and the world shaped and changed both throughout the twentieth century. A unique view of Churchill and a magnificent historical gift.u201d
u201cThis is the best single-volume work on Winston Churchill the soldier ever written. Warlordu00a0exudes scholarship, fine writing, and wisdom in equal measure.u201d
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
u201cDu2019Este is a master analyst of 20th-century military leadership, and this book may be his finest yet. Showing a remarkable knowledge of archival and printed sources, he tells the complex story of a statesman and warrioru2026Du2019Este camouflages neither personal weaknesses nor questionable policiesu2026Elegantly written, this tour de force belongs in every library addressing the 20th century.u201d
“D’Este, a biographer of Patton and Eisenhower, has long detected an absence of objectivity about Churchill’s military career. Here he astutely lauds Churchill’s soldierly courage but questions how Churchill-the-politician acted as, in effect, an operational general…Neither idolator nor revisionist, D’Este yields an ambivalent impression of Churchill that, while no denigration of his heroic leadership of Britain in 1940, underscores his paradoxes…It is just such paradoxes that render him perennially intriguing to the reading public.”
u201cWith eloquent prose and an abundance of anecdotes [Du2019Este] imparts insights into Churchillu2019s characteru2026[Weineru2019s] consistency of speech permits listeners to focus on the rich language and details of British history. Although Weineru2019s treatment abounds with nuance and expression, he avoids mimicking Churchillu2019s famous speaking voiceu2026but the complex character depicted will allow readers to form their own opinions.u201d
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