Chronicles the Allied commander and future president's unlikely rise to power, tracing his impoverished youth as the son of pacifists, his West Point education, sometimes troubled marriage, toil under MacArthur in the Philippines, contributions to the War Department, and involvement in D-Day.

"A John Macrae/Owl book." "A John Macrae book."

The Eisenhowers, 1741-1909 -- The Accidental Soldier, 1901-1916 -- World War I, 1917-19 -- The Interwar Years, 1920-39 -- The United States Prepares for War, 1940-42 -- A general's education: the Mediterranean, 1942-43 -- The invasion of Europe, 1944 -- Crisis in Command: Normandy to the Elbe, 1944-45.