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Crusade in Europe

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969. Book - 1997 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1948.
1. Prelude to war -- 2. Global war -- 3. Command post for Marshall -- 4. Platform for invasion -- 5. Planning torch -- 6. Invasion of Africa -- 7. Winter in Algiers -- 8. Tunisian campaign -- 9. Husky -- 10. Sicily and Salerno -- 11. Cairo Conference -- 12. Italy -- 13. Planning Overlord -- 14. D-Day and lodgment -- 15. Breakout -- 16. Pursuit and the battle of supply -- 17. Autumn fighting on Germany's frontier -- 18. Hitler's last bid -- 19. Crossing the Rhine -- 20. Assault and encirclement -- 21. Overrunning Germany -- 22. Victory's aftermath -- 23. Operation study -- 24. Russia -- Appendices. A. Allied order of battle for final offensive -- B. The Allied air-ground team for the final offensive -- C. The German ground forces.
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 working toward victory in Europe. His personal record of the tense first hours after he had issued the order to attack, and there was no turning back, leaves no doubt of Eisenhower's travail and reveals this great man in ways that no biographer has ever surpassed--Publisher's description.

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PUBLISHED
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Year Published: 1997
Description: xiv, 559 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
080185668X
9780801856686

SUBJECTS
Eisenhower, Dwight D. -- 1890-1969.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.