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My Three Years With Eisenhower: The Personal Diary Of Captain Harry C. Butcher, USNR. The personal Diary of Captain Harry C. Butcher, USNR. Naval Aide to General Eisenhower, 1942 to 1945. First Edition. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1946. 21 x 14 cm. xvii, (16), 911 pages.
Original blue cloth. Red and gilt label on spine. Book in Good Condition with all pages tight and secure to the hinge.
Military related annotation from 1969 on back of front endpaper. See pictures in gallery area for example of this.
Review from Goodreads:
My Three Years with Eisenhower could have been written only by the man who lived with Dwight D. Eisenhower day and night; who acted as his friend and confidant; whose duties ranged from opening the General’s car door to handling such ticklish jobs as the battle between General Patton and Sergeant Bill Mauldin; who saw Dwight Eisenhower, in his intimate day by day life, develop from a relatively unknown staff officer to the Commander of the greatest military operation in all history. (…)
For this book is a new kind of history, a backstage account of the movements of the most important actors in the greatest drama ever played. It is a unique combination of intense human interest and grand strategy, providing countless intimate glimpses of the key members of the Allied family, their relations with each other, their private and hitherto unpublished views on the greatest questions of the era, their human failings and their essential greatness.
About the Author:
Dwight David Eisenhower, born David Dwight Eisenhower, nicknamed “Ike”, was a General of the Army (five-star general) in the United States Army and U.S. politician, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United States (1953 – 1961). During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.
As President, he oversaw the cease-fire of the Korean War, kept up the pressure on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, made nuclear weapons a higher defense priority, launched the Space Race, enlarged the Social Security program, and began the Interstate Highway System.
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