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Ike is acclaimed author Michael Korda's sweeping and enthralling biography of Dwight David Eisenhower, arguably America's greatest general and one of her best presidents-a remarkable man in an extraordinary time, the hero who won the war and thereafter kept the peace.
3) Billy Boyle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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What's a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who's never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, he'd barely made detective when war was declared. Unwilling to fight'and perhaps die'for England, he was relieved when his mother wangled a job for him on the staff of a general married to her distant cousin. But the...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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The "definitive" book on the U-2 episode and its disastrous impact on the future of the Cold War ( Kirkus Reviews ). On May Day 1960, Soviet forces downed a CIA spy plane flown deep into Soviet territory by Francis Gary Powers two weeks before a crucial summit. This forced President Dwight Eisenhower to decide whether, in an effort to save the meeting, to admit to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev-and the world-that he had secretly ordered Powers's...
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Henry Holt & Co
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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Chronicles the Allied commander and future president's unlikely rise to power, tracing his impoverished youth as the son of pacifists, his West Point education, sometimes troubled marriage, toil under MacArthur in the Philippines, contributions to the War Department, and involvement in D-Day.
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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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The war for Europe through the previously unpublished correspondence of Eisenhower and his Chief of Staff, offering new insight into a key partnership of the U.S. military Between December 1943 and November 1945, General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, United States Army, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Forces, communicated through top secret channels, their letters given the highest security rating--...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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The blockbuster #1 national bestseller Bret Baier, the Chief Political Anchor for Fox News Channel and the Anchor and Executive Editor of Special Report with Bret Baier , illuminates the extraordinary yet underappreciated presidency of Dwight Eisenhower by taking readers into Ike's last days in power. "Magnificently rendered. ... Destined to take its place as not only one of the masterworks on Eisenhower, but as one of the classics of presidential...
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