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Carlo D'Este

Carlo Winthrop D'Este (August 29, 1936 – November 22, 2020)[3] was an American military historian and biographer, author of several books, especially on World War II. He was a decorated U.S. Army lieutenant colonel. In 2011, he was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.[4][5] D'Este died at age 84 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.[6]

Carlo D'Este

Carlo Winthrop D'Este

(1936-08-29)August 29, 1936
Oakland, California, U.S.

November 22, 2020(2020-11-22) (aged 84)

Cape Cod, Massachusetts, U.S.

New Mexico Military Institute junior college, 1956
Norwich University magna cum laude, 1958
University of Richmond master's, 1974

Military historian
Biographer
Military officer

Lieutenant Colonel, USA (Ret.)

Shirley D'Este

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Military historian and biographer, 1978–2020

Member of

Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee

Honorary member, Board of Fellows of Norwich University

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President of the Friends of Norwich Library

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Elected trustee of Mashpee , Mashpee, Massachusetts for 21 years[9]

Public Library

United States Army, tours of duty in and Vietnam, retired as lieutenant colonel, 1978.

Germany

Lecturer at , United States Army Command and General Staff College

School of Advanced Military Studies

Founded (with ) the William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium[10] (1996), which presents the Colby Award.[11]

W.E.B. Griffin

Advised Bill Clinton on his visit to Italy, England, and Normandy (1994)

President of the United States

Awards and honors[edit]

He was awarded the Andrew J. Goodpaster Prize by the American Veterans Center, 2010.[12]


He delivered the annual Kemper Lecture on Winston Churchill at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, 2010.


In 2011, he received the $100,000 Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.[13][14] The award includes an honorarium, citation and medallion, sponsored by the Chicago-based Tawani Foundation.[15] As part of the award, he gave an interview at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on October 21, 2011, reflecting on his writing career in the field of World War II scholarship.

Decision in Normandy: The Unwritten Story of and the Allied Campaign, Dutton (New York, NY), 1983. ISBN 9780060924959

Montgomery

Bitter Victory: The Battle for , 1943, Dutton (New York, NY), 1988. ISBN 9780525244714

Sicily

World War II in the Mediterranean, 1942–1945, Algonquin (Chapel Hill, NC), 1990.  9780945575047

ISBN

Fatal Decision: and the Battle for Rome, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1991. ISBN 9780060158903

Anzio

Patton: A Genius for War, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1995.  9780060164553

ISBN

Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life, 1890–1945, (New York, NY), 2002. ISBN 9780805056860

Henry Holt

(1st ed.). New York City, New York: HarperCollins. November 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-057573-1. Retrieved 2008-11-26.

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

(introduction to) "Sicilia 1943. Lo sbarco alleato" by Ezio Costanzo (author), Le Nove Muse Editrice (Catania, Italy), 2003

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(introduction to) Battle, the Story of the Bulge, , Random House (New York, NY), 1959

John Toland

(contributor to) Few Returned: Twenty-eight Days on the Russian Front, Winter 1942–1943, edited by Eugenio Corti, (Columbia, MO), 1997.

University of Missouri Press

(July 25, 2004). "Warsaw Will Be Liquidated". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-11-28. Review of Rising '44. The Battle for Warsaw, by Norman Davies.

D'Este, Carlo

New Mexico Military Institute, 2002

Hall of Fame

Norwich University, , 1992

D.H.L.

Board of Fellows Service Medallion, Norwich University, 2008

[17]

, October 1992, Alan F. Wilt, review of Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome, pp. 1304–1305.

American Historical Review

Book, July–August, 2002, Philip Gerard, "A Gentleman and an Officer: Before Became a National Hero, He Was a Little-Known Soldier", p. 26.

Dwight Eisenhower

, May 1, 2002, Gilbert Taylor, review of Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life, 1890–1945, p. 1489.

Booklist

, December 1990, P. L. De Rosa, review of World War II in the Mediterranean, 1942–1945, p. 683.

Choice

, May 1, 2002, review of Eisenhower, p. 632.

Kirkus Reviews

Fraser, David , Vol 5 No 24, December 22, 1983, "Montgomeries" pp. 7–8 (a review of Decision in Normandy: The Unwritten Story of Montgomery and the Allied Campaign - subscription required for full access)

London Review of Books

London Review of Books, May 26, 1994, review of Decision in Normandy, p. 3.

, August 12, 2002, Victor Davis Hanson, "Soldier of Contrasts", p. 49.

National Review

, September 8, 1988, review of Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily, 1943, p. C21.

The New York Times

, January 22, 1984, review of Decision in Normandy, p. 10

The New York Times Book Review

New York Times Book Review, November 27, 1988, , review of Bitter Victory, p. 18

Walter Lord

New York Times Book Review, July 21, 1991, review of Fatal Decision

New York Times Book Review, p. 27; December 10, 1995, , review of Patton: A Genius for War

Alistair Horne

New York Times Book Review, pp. 9, 11; July 28, 2002, Timothy Naftali, "The Hardest Job in the Longest Day", p. 8.

, October 14, 1983, review of Decision in Normandy, p. 51

Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly, July 1, 1988, review of Bitter Victory, pp. 61–62

Publishers Weekly, April 12, 1991, review of Fatal Decision, p. 51

Publishers Weekly, April 15, 2002, review of Eisenhower, p. 49.

, September 16, 1988, Michael Carver, review of Bitter Victory, p. 1022

Times Literary Supplement

Times Literary Supplement, September 6, 1991, , review of Fatal Decision, pp. 11–12

Michael Howard

Times Literary Supplement, June 10, 1994, review of Decision in Normandy, p. 33.

, December 8, 1995, Mark Yost, review of Patton, p. A10

The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal, July 12, 2002, , "Less to Like about Ike", p. W12.

Max Boot

Publisher's biographic sketch

Carlo D'Este from HarperCollins Publishers

Bookseller's biographical sketch

Patton, Harper Perennial, Carlo D'este, Book - Barnes & Noble

and biography at The Pritzker Military Museum & Library from February 8, 2007

Carlo D'Este Interview

Appearances

In Depth interview with D'Este, July 6, 2003

on Warlord: a life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945 at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on November 13, 2008

Interview

on U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower with Geoffrey Perret at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on October 23, 2003.

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