Yet this is also a warm and richly human account. Ike recalls the long months of waiting, planning, and working toward victory in Europe. His personal record of the tense first hours after he had issued the order to attack--and there was no turning back--leaves no doubt of Eisenhower's travail and reveals this great man in ways that no biographer has ever surpassed.
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Background Information
Dwight D. Eisenhower rose above many more senior American officers to become Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe and later President of the United States. World War II was fought between the Allies and the Axis powers between 1939 and 1945. On D-Day, June 5, 1944, the Allies invaded France on the beaches of Normandy and surprised the Germans who had expected their attack at Calais.