Crusade in Europe.

EISENHOWER, Dwight D.

Item Number: 121311

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1948.

First edition of General Eisenhower’s wartime memoirs. Octavo, bound in full green morocco by Kingsport Press with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the panels, gilt facsimile Eisenhower autograph to the front panel, inner dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with photographs and maps. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.

Five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower was arguably the single most important military figure of World War II. For many historians, his memoirs of this eventful period of U.S. history have become the single most important record of the war. Crusade in Europe tells the complete story of the war as Eisenhower planned and lived it. Through his eyes, the enormous scope and drama of the war―strategy, battles, moments of fateful decision―become fully illuminated in all their fateful glory. "Eisenhower gives the reader true insight into the most difficult part of a commander's life" (New York Times).