Eisenhower: A Soldier's LifeMacmillan, 2002 M06 4 - 848 páginas From the bestselling author of Patton: A Genius for War comes a compelling new account of the transformation of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, from apprehensive soldier to one of our greatest heros. In the weeks leading up to D-Day, Dwight D. Eisenhower seethed with nervous energy. He had not expected his military career to bring him to this moment. The son of pacifists, Ike graduated from high school more likely to teach history than to make it. Casting new light on this profound evolution, Eisenhower chronicles the unlikely, dramatic rise of the supreme Allied commander. Beginning with the lasting effect of Eisenhower's impoverished youth, bestselling biographer Carlo D'Este follows his subject through West Point and a sometimes troubled marriage; toil under MacArthur in the Philippines during the 1930s; the inner sanctums of the War Department; the general's painful North African apprenticeship; and, finally, the dramatic events leading to the Allied victory in May 1945. Exposing for the first time numerous myths that have surrounded the war hero and his family (such as his romance with his wartime driver, Kay Summersby), D'Este also probes Eisenhower's famous clashes with his American peers and the British chiefs of staff, as well as his relations with legendary figures, including Winston Churchill and George S. Patton. Unlike other biographies of the general, Eisenhower captures Ike's true character, from his youth to the pinnacle of his career and afterward. |
Contenido
An Astonishing Man | 1 |
THE EISENHOWERS 17411909 | 7 |
Abilene to West Point | 51 |
The Long Gray Line | 59 |
Popular but Undistinguished | 72 |
Miss Mamie Doud | 91 |
THE INTERWAR YEARS 192039 | 150 |
The Man Who Made Eisenhower | 161 |
Third Army Chief of Staff | 272 |
Marshalls Protégé | 284 |
Im Going to Command the Whole Shebang | 299 |
The Architect of Cooperation | 308 |
An Unlikely Friendship | 328 |
Sailing a Dangerous Sea | 334 |
THE MEDITERRANEAN 194243 | 349 |
I Am Nothing but a Soldier | 351 |
A Watershed in My Life | 175 |
Fort Benning Washington and France 192629 | 184 |
Nothing Short of a Genius | 197 |
The Indispensable Staff Officer | 203 |
Shame Shame | 218 |
Toiling for MacArthur | 225 |
Mission Impossible | 234 |
Im a Soldier Im Going Home | 250 |
THE UNITED STATES PREPARES FOR WAR 194042 | 257 |
This Work Is Fun | 259 |
The Dreariest Chapter in the History of Allied Collaboration | 360 |
Four Stars | 375 |
Ikus Africanus | 391 |
Monty and Alex | 406 |
What in Hell Does Eisenhower Command? | 415 |
Everything That Planning Should Not Be | 429 |
Sources and Selected Bibliography | 809 |
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