Carlo D’Este, an American military
historian and biographer, is the author of several books, primarily on World
War II. In 2011 he received the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for
Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. He served as an officer in the US
Army and was awarded the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star with oak-leaf cluster,
Meritorious Service Medal, and Army Commendation Medal. He retired from the US
Army in 1978 with the rank of lieutenant colonel to write full time. Among his
books are Bitter Victory; Warlord: A Life of Churchill at War,
1874–1945; Patton: A Genius for War;
World War II in the Mediterranean,
1942–1945; and Eisenhower: Allied
Supreme Commander.
