At ease : stories I tell to friends / Dwight D. Eisenhower
Material type: TextPublication details: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Co., 1967Edition: [1st ed.]Description: 400 pages : illustrationsSubject(s):Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | DIS Library Non-Fiction 3F | 92 Eisenho (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | MH008339 |
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
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