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La liberazione di Roma fu uno degli episodi principali della Campagna d'Italia della Seconda guerra mondiale. Come era iniziata la campagna? In questo libro di potente drammaticità l'autore ricostruisce le vicende a partire dallo sbarco alleato nel piccolo porto di Anzio il 22 gennaio 1944. L'operazione avrebbe dovuto significare, nei piani alleati, la possibilità di creare una base che tagliasse fuori le lineee di collegamento viario e ferrov...

Warlord explores Churchill's strategies behind the major military campaigns of World War I and World War IIboth his dazzling successes and disastrous failureswhile also revealing his tumultuous relationships with his generals and other commanders, including Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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D'Este's brilliant new biography examines Winston Churchill through the prism of his military service as both a soldier and a warlord. As riveting as the man it portrays, "Warlord" is a masterful, unsparing portrait of one of history's most fascinating and influential leaders.

Based on exclusive access to his personal and public papers, and with the full cooperation of his family, Patton is an intimate look at the colorful, charismatic, and sometimes controversial man who became the one general the Germans respected and feared the most during World War II. Photos.

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 c...

A brilliant and definitive narrative of the most brutal and costly World War II battle in the Mediterranean by a leading military historian. 73 black-and-white halftones, 16 maps.

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An excellent book . . . D'Este's masterly account comes into its own." -The Washington Post Book WorldBorn into hardscrabble poverty in rural Kansas, the son of stern pacifists, Dwight David Eisenhower graduated from high school more likely to teach history than to make it. Casting new light on this profound evolution, Eisenhower chronicles the unlikely, dramatic rise of the supreme Allied commander.With full access to private papers and lette...

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.

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.

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.