At ease :
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1890-1969
At ease : stories I tell to friends / Dwight D. Eisenhower - [1st ed.] - Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Co., 1967 - 400 pages : illustrations ;
Includes index Partly autobiographical
A man talking to himself -- To the point -- Book one: The Abilene years. Sauce for the gander -- The key to the closet -- Those I came from -- The "gem" on the plains -- Life with mother -- Footnotes for biographers -- Toward Annapolis -- Book Two: The peacetime army. Fort Sam Houston, Texas, 1916 -- Camp Meade, Camp Colt: Training for the invisible war -- Through darkest America with truck and tank -- Colonel George Patton -- The tragic road to Panama -- The Generals: Pershing and MacArthur -- With MacArthur in the Philippines -- Book Three: At war. The states again -- Incidents at war -- More war stories -- Book four: At peace. Stories out of London, Berlin, Frankfurt -- Lost in the Pentagon -- New student at an old university -- Professor Ike -- The shape of things to come
Anecdotes about the former President's family and military life, historical events, and institutions combine informal autobiography with history
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1890-1969
Presidents--United States--Biography
Generals--United States--Biography
At ease : stories I tell to friends / Dwight D. Eisenhower - [1st ed.] - Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Co., 1967 - 400 pages : illustrations ;
Includes index Partly autobiographical
A man talking to himself -- To the point -- Book one: The Abilene years. Sauce for the gander -- The key to the closet -- Those I came from -- The "gem" on the plains -- Life with mother -- Footnotes for biographers -- Toward Annapolis -- Book Two: The peacetime army. Fort Sam Houston, Texas, 1916 -- Camp Meade, Camp Colt: Training for the invisible war -- Through darkest America with truck and tank -- Colonel George Patton -- The tragic road to Panama -- The Generals: Pershing and MacArthur -- With MacArthur in the Philippines -- Book Three: At war. The states again -- Incidents at war -- More war stories -- Book four: At peace. Stories out of London, Berlin, Frankfurt -- Lost in the Pentagon -- New student at an old university -- Professor Ike -- The shape of things to come
Anecdotes about the former President's family and military life, historical events, and institutions combine informal autobiography with history
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1890-1969
Presidents--United States--Biography
Generals--United States--Biography