Carlo D'Este

Education

• New Mexico Military Institute junior college, 1956
• Norwich University, 1958
• University of Richmond masters, 1974
• University of London under the G.I. bill

  Career and other work

• Military historian and biographer, 1978-present
• Member of Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee
• Honorary member, Board of Fellows of Norwich University
• President of the Friends of Norwich Library
• Elected trustee of Mashpee Public Library, Mashpee, Massachusetts for 21 years
• United States Army, tours of duty in Germany and Vietnam, retired as lieutenant colonel, 1978.
• Lecturer at School of Advanced Military Studies, United States Army Command and General Staff College
• Founded the William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium. That organization presents the Colby Award.
• Advised President of the United States Bill Clinton on his visit to Italy, England, and Normandy

  Influences on

Awards and honors

Writings

• Decision in Normandy: The Unwritten Story of Montgomery and the Allied Campaign, Dutton, 1983.
• Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily, 1943, Dutton, 1988.
• World War II in the Mediterranean, 1942–1945, Algonquin, 1990.
• Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome, HarperCollins, 1991.
• Patton: A Genius for War, HarperCollins, 1995.
• Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life, 1890–1945, Henry Holt, 2002.
• "Sicilia 1943. Lo sbarco alleato" by Ezio Costanzo, Le Nove Muse Editrice, 2003
• Battle, the Story of the Bulge, John Toland, Random House, 1959
• Few Returned: Twenty-eight Days on the Russian Front, Winter 1942–1943, edited by Eugenio Corti, University of Missouri Press, 1997.
• Review of Rising '44. The Battle for Warsaw, by Norman Davies.

  Decorations

• Hall of Fame, New Mexico Military Institute, 2002
• Norwich University, D.H.L., 1992
• Board of Fellows Service Medallion, Norwich University, 2008