Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said General Eisenhower: "Well, you and I are a good pair then, because I'm nervous too . . . Maybe if we just walk along together to the river we'll be good for each other...
...general fell into step beside the young infantryman and together they plodded toward the Rhine...
...General, I'm awful nervous ... I don't feel so good...
...date was March 23, 1945. By next morning the massive crossing of the Rhine in the Wesel sector was a fact, and jubilant Winston Churchill stood on the west bank exclaiming repeatedly to Ike: "My dear General, the German is whipped. We've got him. He is all through." But sweeter, perhaps, to Eisenhower, was the fervent comment of Field Marshal Brooke, Churchill's army chief of staff: ''Thank God, Ike, you stuck by your plan. You were completely right . . . Thank God, you stuck by your guns...
...General Eisenhower to stick by his guns was a tougher job than has ever been told until now. This week, in the 559 pages of Crusade in Europe, Ike explains just how tough it was. Written in the brisk and serviceable monotone of West Point English, it is Ike's own indispensable record of the war in Europe and Africa...