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EISENHOWER: AT WAR 1943-1945 by David Eisenhower. Ike's grandson emerges as a formidable historian and biographer in this study of the European campaign and of what the general knew and when he knew...
...public first noticed him as Ike's apple-cheeked grandson and occasional fishing partner, the boy whose name was given to the presidential retreat in Maryland. Years later, David Eisenhower surfaced as the husband of Julie Nixon and a member of the tight family circle that drew around his father-in-law during the siege of Watergate. Given the tempers of those times, the young man seemed hopelessly out of it: clean-cut, unashamed of his hitch as a Navy officer, and about as relevant to the presumptive radicalizing of America as Howdy Doody. When Nixon resigned in 1974, David...
...happened. The fame of its subject and, to a lesser extent, its writer practically guarantees best-sellerdom, but Eisenhower: At War 1943-1945 hardly qualifies as a popularized book. Those seeking scandals or secrets will be disappointed. Author Eisenhower notes, for example, rumors of a wartime affair between Ike and his chauffeur-secretary Kay Summersby. The matter is then quickly dropped: "Eisenhower was under tremendous pressures and in need of company. Beyond this, the truth was known only by them, and both are gone." Instead of titillating, David is interested in seeing the war through his grandfather's eyes...
...waged the campaign. But never before have these problems been spelled out in such day-by-day, sometimes hour-by-hour detail. The D-day Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944, code named OVERLOAD, was plagued by foul weather, shortages and doubt up to the moment that Ike said, "O.K., we'll go." Churchill called this operation "undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever taken place," which sounds like understatement in the context of David Eisenhower's meticulous reconstruction of the event...
David Eisenhower is on target in Volume I of Grandfather Ike' s brilliant career. -- Ernie Pyle' s dispatches offer a worm' s- eye view...