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Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The war for Europe through the previously unpublished correspondence of Eisenhower and his Chief of Staff, offering new insight into a key partnership of the U.S. military Between December 1943 and November 1945,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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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
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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