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Carlo D'Este

Carlo D'Este served in the US Army in Vietnam, Germany and England before retiring as a lieutenant-colonel in 1978. He received his MA from the University of Richmond and has now published six books that have won high praise both sides of the Atlantic. Acclaimed by Anthony Beevor, John Keegan, Victor Davis Hanson, Martin Blumenson and Alan Clark, he is the greatest military biographer working today.

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Eisenhower

'... any work by d'Este deserves deep respect. As a military historian, he is a class by himself. D'Este likes Ike as much as all the rest of us, but in his portrait the warts are given full significance. Eisenhower, he makes clear, had the defects of his qualities'.

Michael Howard

TLS (24/7/03)

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