Eisenhower
Subtitle: in war and peace
By: by Jean Edward Smith
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 950
ISBN-13: 9781400066933
Subjects: Politics and government; Generals; Presidents; United States; United States. Army; Biography
Description: A peerless biographer returns with a new life of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America's thirty-fourth president.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Just folks; title: The Great War; title: The peacetime Army; title: With Pershing in Paris; title: With MacArthur in Washington; title: Manila; title: Louisiana maneuvers; title: With Marshall in Washington; title: TORCH; title: Baptism by fire; title: Sicily; title: Supreme Commander; title: D-Day; title: The liberation of France; title: Germany; title: Chief of staff; title: Columbia; title: "I like Ike"; title: The Great Crusade; title: Eight millionaires and a plumber; title: First off the tee; title: Dien Bien Phu; title: New look; title: Heart attack; title: Suez; title: Little Rock; title: Military-industrial complex; title: Taps