Ike
Subtitle: An American Hero
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: August 21, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 800
ISBN-13: 9780060756659
Table of contents: title: Author's note; title: Part one : The making of a hero.; title: "Ike"; title: "I hope to God I know what I'm doing"; title: "What a man did as a boy"; title: "Where else could you get a college education without cost?; title: "Second Lieutenant Eisenhower; title: "The greatest disappointment and disaster in my life"; title: The education of a soldier; title: The MacArthur years; title: Part two : Command.; title: "As soon as you get a promotion they start talking about another one. Why can't they let a guy be happy with what he has?"; title: London, 1942; title: Algiers; title: Sicily; title: Part three : Victory.; title: "Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Forces" : 1944; title: Triumph : D-Day, June 6, 1944; title: Stalemate; title: Armageddon, 1945; title: "I had never realized that Ike was as big a man"; title: Part four : The White House years.; title: "I like Ike!"; title: "And so we came to Gettysburg and to the farm we had bought eleven years earlier, where we expected to spend the remainder of our lives"; title: "Lower the shades!