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Eisenhower A Soldier's Life

by D'Este, Carlo

ISBN13: 9780805056877
ISBN10: 0805056874
eBook ISBN(s): 9781627799614
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2003-05-15
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

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Summary

Born into hardscrabble poverty in rural Kansas, the son of stern pacifists, Dwight David Eisenhower 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. With full access to private papers and letters, Carlo D'Este has exposed for the first time the untold myths that have surrounded Eisenhower and his family for over fifty years, and identified the complex and contradictory character behind Ike's famous grin and air of calm self-assurance. Unlike other biographies of the general, Eisenhower captures the true Ike, from his youth to the pinnacle of his career and afterward.

Author Biography

Carlo D’Este, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and a distinguished military historian, is the author of Patton: A Genius for War and three other books on World War II, all of which received high praise. He lives in New Seabury, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Prologue: ``An Astonishing Man''

1

(8)

I. THE EISENHOWERS, 1741-1909

``Say Eisenhauer for Ironcutter.''

9

(5)

The Promised Land

14

(9)

``A Good Place for Boys to Grow into Men''

23

(15)

A Young Man's Education

38

(13)

II. The Accidental Soldier, 1910-16

Abilene to West Point

51

(8)

The Long Gray Line

59

(13)

``Popular but Undistinguished''

72

(13)

``1915---the Summer Dwight Came Back from West Point''

85

(6)

Miss Mamie Doud

91

(18)

III. World War I, 1917-19

Roses Have Thorns

109

(15)

``I... Will Make Up for This.''

124

(14)

``A Journey Through Darkest America''

138

(7)

A Friendship Forged

145

(16)

IV. THE INTERWAR YEARS, 1920-39

``The Man Who Made Eisenhower''

161

(14)

``A Watershed in My Life''

175

(9)

Fort Benning, Washington, and France, 1926--29

184

(13)

``Nothing Short of a Genius''

197

(6)

The Indispensable Staff Officer

203

(15)

``Shame! Shame!''

218

(7)

Toiling for MacArthur

225

(9)

Mission Impossible

234

(16)

``I'm a Soldier. I'm Going Home.''

250

(9)

V. THE UNITED STATES PREPARES FOR WAR, 1940-42

``This Work Is Fun!''

259

(13)

Third Army Chief of Staff

272

(12)

Marshall's Protege

284

(15)

``I'm Going to Command the Whole Shebang.''

299

(9)

The Architect of Cooperation

308

(20)

An Unlikely Friendship

328

(6)

Sailing a Dangerous Sea

334

(17)

VI. A GENERAL'S EDUCATION: THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1942-43

``I Am Nothing but a Soldier.''

351

(9)

``The Dreariest Chapter in the History of Allied Collaboration''

360

(15)

Four Stars

375

(16)

``Ikus Africanus''

391

(15)

Monty and Alex

406

(9)

``What in Hell Does Eisenhower Command?''

415

(14)

``Everything That Planning Should Not Be''

429

(14)

``A Grinding War of Attrition''

443

(18)

``Who Will Command Overlord?''

461

(16)

VII. THE INVASION OF EUROPE, 1944

Supreme Allied Commander

477

(15)

``A Monument to the Imagination of British and American Planners''

492

(20)

``O.K., We'll Go.''

512

(18)

``I Thank the Gods of War We Went When We Did.''

530

(16)

The Battle for Normandy

546

(13)

``Dear Ike, To-day I spat in the Seine.''

559

(14)

Triumph and Controversy

573

(12)

VIII. CRISIS IN COMMAND: NORMANDY TO THE ELBE, 1944-45

``A Tactician's Hell and a Quartermaster's Purgatory''

585

(9)

Which Way to Germany?

594

(16)

``Coins Burning Holes in SHAEF's Pocket''

610

(15)

The Autumn Stalemate

625

(12)

``There Will Be Only Cheerful Faces at This Conference Table.''

637

(13)

``If I Can Keep the Team Together, Anything's Worth It.''

650

(12)

The Invasion of Germany

662

(17)

All Roads Lead to Berlin

679

(9)

Armageddon

688

(17)

Epilogue

705

(2)

Notes

707

(102)

Sources and Selected Bibliography

809

(14)

Acknowledgments

823

(2)

Index

825

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Excerpts

The noise was deafening. Eisenhower and the members of his party climbed onto the roof of the division headquarters to watch in silence as hundreds of aircraft and gliders lumbered into the rapidly darkening sky, again saluting as each aircraft passed by. For Eisenhower, a man unused to publicly expressing his emotions, it was a painfully moving, yet exhilarating experience, and the closest he would come to being one of them. NBC correspondent Merrill Mueller stood nearby and noted that Eisenhower, his hands deep in his pockets, had tears in his eyes.

Eisenhower remained after the last aircraft had taken off and their sounds had faded away in the night. Strolling back to his staff car, deep in thought, his shoulders sagging as they did whenever he was troubled, Kay Summersby thought him the loneliest man in the world at that moment. The knot of apprehension in his gut can only be imagined, but the expression on his face revealed more than words. "Well, it's on," he said somberly, again looking up at the night sky, "no one can stop it now."

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