Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Title: Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower Author: Stephen E Ambrose ISBN: 9781578062065 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Published: 1999 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Good H 1626681 Publisher Description: In North Africa, on the beaches at Normandy, and in the Battle of the Bulge, Dwight David Eisenhower proved himself as one of the world's greatest military leaders. Faced with conciliating or disagreeing with such stormy figures as Churchill, Roosevelt, and DeGaulle, and generals like Montgomery and Patton, General Eisenhower showed himself to be as skillful a diplomat as he was a strategist. Stephen E. Ambrose, associate editor of the General's official papers, analyzes his subject's decisions in The Supreme Commander, which Doubleday first published in 1970. Throughout the book Ambrose traces the steady development of E