Warlord: a life of Winston Churchill at war, 1874-1945

A biography of Winston Churchill's astonishing military career from his youth through World War II.

  • OCLC #: 179806754
  • ISBN #:
    • 9780060575731
    • 0060575735
  • Call #: DA566.9.C5D47 2008
  • Publisher: New York : Harper, ©2008.
  • Edition:
    • 1st ed.
  • Physical Description: xvi, 845 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Contents:
    • 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.