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Description edit
Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president. He gives us a masterly account of the European war theater... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
People edit
- Dwight D. Eisenhower: 34th President of the United States. Served two terms from 1952-1960. General who led us a successful invasion into Normady on D-Day during World War II
- Mamie Eisenhower: Add a description of this character.
- George C. Marshall
- George S. Patton
- John Foster Dulles
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Joseph McCarthy
- Omar Bradley
- Richard Nixon
- Robert Taft
- John Kennedy
- Walter Bedell Smith
- Sherman Adams
- Andrew Goodpaster
- Harry Truman
- Herbert Brownell
- Bernard Montgomery
- Hagerty
- Milton Eisenhower
- Thomas E. Dewey
- Churchill
- Whitman
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Adlai Stevenson: Governor of Illinois from 1948 until 1952, he was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956
- Earl Warren
- Kay Summersby
- Lewis Strauss
- Mark Clark
- Zhukov
- Wilson
- Syngman Rhee
- Erwin Rommel
- Robert Oppenheimer
- Charles De Gaulle
- Josef Stalin
- Harold Macmillan
- Arthur Radford
Setting & Locations edit
- United States
- Washington
- America
- Germany
- Berlin
- Eastern Europe
- White House
- France
- Korea
- Vietnam
- Paris
- Russia
- New York
- London
- Cuba
- Abilene
- Sicily
- Middle East
- Soviet Union
- North Africa
- Britain
- Indochina
- West Point
- Geneva
- Italy
- Antwerp
- Israel
- Normandy
- Egypt
- Moscow
- Hungary
- Lebanon
- Columbia
- England
- California
- Jordan
- Texas
- Denver
- Southeast Asia
- Rome
- Quezon
- West Wall
- Gettysburg
- Augusta
- Shaef
- Tunis
- Oval Office
First Sentence edit
HE WAS BORN on October 14, 1890, in a small rented frame house, not much more than a shack, beside the railroad tracks in Denison, Texas.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Stephen E. Ambrose (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 1990
ISBN: 067170107X
Page Count: 704
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: October 1990
ISBN: 067170107X
Page Count: 704
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 973.921092
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century › 1945 - Present
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › People, A-Z › ( E ) › Eisenhower, Dwight D.
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Professionals & Academics › Military & Spies
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Leaders & Notable People › Presidents & Heads of State
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Leaders & Notable People › Military
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Historical
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