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Fine unread condition dark blue cloth boards with facsimile gold front cover author autograph and gold spine lettering contained in a very good condition non price-clipped photographic and color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by John S.D. Eisenhower; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes by Napoleon and Sir Winston Churchill; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; Preface; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates, color illustrated front and rear endpaper maps, plus additional black-and-white maps interspersed throughout the volume. "Dwight D. Eisenhower once remarked that "the history of alliances is a history of failure." Allies is a history of one of the great exceptions, the most successful military alliance the world has ever seen. Allies goes beyond just another military history, one more recitation of events, a new refighting of World War II. It is a study of the prodigious undertaking that brought millions of men and women together to defeat the Axis, a detailed examination of the questions central to the success of the awesome enterprise that was the Allied war effort. What was this Alliance that continues to influence the world decades after its members have realigned - or fallen out? Who made up the Alliance, the men who cooperated for many (and often contradictory) reasons to defeat the fascist powers? How did it actually work, and why? What were the issues that threatened to shatter it, and how and when were they resolved? The late Supreme Commander and former President made some notes on the subject that began to suggest answers to such questions. In the press of events, however, he set the project aside, and his son John took up the job. The result, on one level, is a dramatic reevaluation of some of the great personalities (and personal conflicts) involved in building the Allied effort: Churchill and Roosevelt, Brooke and Marshall, Eisenhower, Dill, Patton, Montgomery, and many others. Elsewhere, we glimpse scenes of war at the working level: on a convoy crossing the Atlantic, with a secret landing party on the African coast for an all-night meeting near Algiers, and with armored units in Tunisia. These blended perspectives produce an informed writer-scholar-insider's view of the often uneasy, sometimes contentious, ultimately irresistible combination of forces called the Allies." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.
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