Author: Geoffrey Perret
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
Keywords: eisenhower
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2000-11
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1580624316
ISBN-13: 9781580624312

This new, in-depth life of Eisenhower offers fresh perspectives, not only on World War II and the Korean War but also on the Cold War, the civil rights movement, McCarthyism, the U-2 crisis and Vietnam.        Geoffrey Perret’s Eisenhower gives us, for the first time, the whole man. It brings together a huge amount of material, much of it made available to researchers only in recent years. The result is nothing less than an original, authoritative and provocative portrait of Eisenhower, as both soldier and president.        Far from being the easygoing and pliant figure o

Author: John S. D. Eisenhower
Publisher: University of Missouri
Keywords: anzio, fought
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2007-07-05
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0826217389
ISBN-13: 9780826217387

Italy was the scene of the longest, bloodiest, most frustrating, and least understood series of battles fought by the Western Allies during World War II. Now, John S. D. Eisenhower offers a new look at the Italian campaign, emphasizing the Anzio offensive an operation pushed by Winston Churchill that fell largely to American troops to carry out. It has been said that Anzio was a soldier s battle, remembered more for blood shed than for military objectives achieved. By focusing on the experiences of the soldiers who fought there and the decisions of commanders in perilous circumstances, They Fo

Author: Travis Jacobs
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: columbia, eisenhower
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 2001-02-09
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0765800365
ISBN-13: 9780765800367

An analysis of Dwight David Eisenhower’s presidency of Columbia University. The author examines the years that played a vital role in the future US President’s journey to the White House.

Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: europe, crusade
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 1997-06-06
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 080185668X
ISBN-13: 9780801856686

Five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower was arguably the single most important military figure of World War II. For many historians, his memoirs of this eventful period of U.S. history have become the single most important record of the war. Crusade in Europe tells the complete story of the war as Eisenhower planned and lived it. Through his eyes, the enormous scope and drama of the war -- strategy, battles, moments of fateful decision -- become fully illuminated in all their fateful glory.Yet this is also a warm and richly human account. Ike recalls the long months of waiting, planning, and wo

Author: John Eisenhower
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: reminiscence, personal, ike, general
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-05-25
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 074325600X
ISBN-13: 9780743256001

John S.D. Eisenhower modestly explains General Ike as "a son’s view of a great military leader -- highly intelligent, strong, forceful, kind, yet as human as the rest of us." It is that, and more: a portrait of the greatest Allied military leader of the Second World War, by the man who knew Ike best. General Ike is a book that John Eisenhower always knew he had to write, a tribute from an affectionate and admiring son to a great father. John chose to write about the "military Ike," as opposed to the "political Ike," because Ike cared far more about his career in uniform than about his ti

Author: John Wukovits
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: generals, eisenhower
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-01-06
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0230613942
ISBN-13: 9780230613942

WWII expert John Wukovits explores Dwight D. Eisenhower’s contributions to American warfare. American general and 34th president of the United States, Eisenhower led the assault on the French coast at Normandy and held together the Allied units through the European campaign that followed. The book reveals Eisenhower’s advocacy in the pre-war years of the tank, his friendships with George Patton and Fox Conner, his service in the Philippines with Douglas MacArthur, and his culminating role as supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe. Wukovits skillfully demonstrates how Eisenho

Author: David Sowell
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Keywords: play, president, golf, eisenhower
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2007-03-26
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0786430087
ISBN-13: 9780786430086

President Dwight D. Eisenhower played nearly 900 rounds of golf during his two terms in office, and his obsession with the game aided an explosion in golf’s popularity during the 1950s. This book details Ike’s love of golf and demonstrates how the sport was interwoven with the major events of his presidency, from the Army-McArthy Hearings to the U-2 crisis. Also covered are the ways golf affected Eisenhower’s family, staff, friends, allies and opponents; the impact Eisenhower’s Augusta National friends had on his decision to seek the presidency; and the president’