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Eisenhower: Allied Supreme Commander

Door Carlo D'Este

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#327508-XD19
Titel
Eisenhower: Allied Supreme Commander
Auteur
D'Este, Carlo
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Cassell
Jaar van uitgave
2004
ISBN10
0304366587
ISBN13
9780304366583
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting
An excellent book . . . D'Este's masterly account comes into its own." --"The Washington Post Book World
Born into hardscrabble poverty in rural Kansas, the son of stern pacifists, Dwight David Eisenhower graduated from high school more likely to teach history than to make it. Casting new light on this profound evolution, Eisenhower chronicles the unlikely, dramatic rise of the supreme Allied commander.
With full access to private papers and letters, Carlo D'Este has exposed for the first time the untold myths that have surrounded Eisenhower and his family for over fifty years, and identified the complex and contradictory character behind Ike's famous grin and air of calm self-assurance.
Unlike other biographies of the general, "Eisenhower captures the true Ike, from his
... (Lees verder)youth to the pinnacle of his career and afterward.
Pagina's
848
Conditie
Goed
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