Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life

With full access to his private papers and letters, the author traces Dwight David Eisenhower's meteoric rise from hardscrapple poverty in rural Kansas to high command and eventually the presidency. He probes Eisnhower's public persona and his private encounters with Churchill, FDR, George Patton and other legendary figures of the century. Based on five years of extensive research, this definitive biography ay change your view of this man who helped shpae world history. Author Carlo D'Este has been called one the finest military historians of his generation and his study on Eisenhower deemed "uncompromising, compassionate, brilliant."

Hardcover, 848 pages.