TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paradis,Michel
TI  - The light of battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the birth of the American superpower 
SN  - 9780358682370
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Mariner Books
KW  - Eisenhower, Dwight D.
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Officers
KW  - Biography
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Diplomatic history
KW  - Generals
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - France
KW  - Normandy
KW  - Command of troops
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-489) and index; Prologue -- Keuren -- Dwight -- Supreme Allied Commander -- Solider of the empire -- Crusader -- Epilogue
N2  - "A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history"--; On June 6, 1944, General Dwight Eisenhower addressed the thousands of American troops preparing to invade Normandy, exhorting them to embrace the "Great Crusade" they faced. Then, in a fleeting moment alone, he drafted a resignation letter in case the invasion failed. In The Light of Battle, Michel Paradis, acclaimed author of Last Mission to Tokyo, paints a vivid portrait of Dwight Eisenhower as he learns to navigate the crosscurrents of diplomacy, politics, strategy, family, and fame with the fate of the free world hanging in the balance. In a world of giants--Churchill, Roosevelt, De Gaulle, Marshall, MacArthur--it was a barefoot boy from Abilene, Kansas, who would master the art of power and become a modern-day George Washington. Drawing upon meticulous research and a voluminous body of newly discovered records, letters, diaries, and firsthand accounts from three continents, Paradis brings Eisenhower to life, as a complicated man who craved simplicity, a genial cipher whose smile was a lethal political weapon
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