Word: darlan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talking, he turned out to be a press agent's dream-but a disaster as a strategist. Ike was too deferential to the British in North Africa and overly cautious in the Italian campaign; he became bogged down in squabbling with General Charles de Gaulle and Admiral Jean Darlan over France's fate. But he learned fast, and by December 1943, when he took command of all Allied forces for the Normandy landing, Ike was sure and decisive. But he was not always right. Too many days and lives were squandered at Arnhem in 1944, argues Ambrose, when...