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Crusade in Europe | 
| Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Pages: 608
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Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.5
ISBN: 080185668X
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.541
EAN: 9780801856686
ASIN: 080185668X
Publication Date: June 6, 1997
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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. 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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 Nothing about Ultra and early computers August 1, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read this regular book, here in Brazil.This book was writen by american, general and later president Dwight Eisenhower.This book is at least regular, for today's standards, because it doesn't talks nothing, about some things linked to World War II:
1-Has nothing about the computers that broked the Enigma code machine.Yes, ultra was classified, but we aren't in 1948.
2-The terrible treatment to german POWs by Eisenhower's men, has no place in this book.Also this book has nothing about terrible famine imposed in Germany by USA,England,etc.
3-The giving of hundreds of thousands of german POWs to Soviet Union, for slave labor has no place in this book.
4-The failures of americans also, has no place in this book.
Even so, this book remains at least regular, 60 years after to be published.
 A great Leader January 21, 2008
A very exciting tale of how America came to help Europe winning the world war II, starting from very limited armed forces in 1940 (something not so much known), then becoming the giant which destroyed the Nazi armies.
This is really a book of reference, together with W.Churchill memories where we see most great actors grow up and act: Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, etc...
The successive battles and the problematics (for example logistical problems) are described very well, many maps help to understand - Thank you Ike !
Gone but not forgotten April 19, 2007
This book is required reading for those interested in World War II history, it took me 20 years to get around to it and am glad I did. Written when most of the principles were still alive (Monty, Clark, Bradley), it is less than frank and open. However, it is an interesting compendium of WWII history as told from the Cat Bird's Seat. Ike was not a great general, but he was a hell of a manager of men and logistics. This is a very good book and all folks interested in WWII need to read it.
 The View from the Top April 30, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Eisenhower's "Crusade in Europe" is a must read for anyone with an interest in WWII. In this book, you can see the European war from the perspective of the man who led the war. What many considered Eisenhower's greatest asset, the diplomatic manner that helped the Americans and British function as one Allied team, is also very apparent in this book.
Eisenhower's story, written just a few years after the war ended, gives the reader a great high-level perspective on the war. He mentions his staff work with the War Department at the beginning of the war before being posted to Europe, and then the balance of the book covers the Mediterranean and European campaigns against the Germans. This isn't a comprehensive history of the war in Europe (for example, he covers Operation Market-Garden in three paragraphs), but instead more of a general overview from Eisenhower's perspective.
Many consider Eisenhower's diplomatic skills - his ability to lead a multi-national organization - as his greatest asset and the reason he was chosen to lead the Allied Armies in Europe. Eisenhower carried this over into his book: he is never critical of any of his subordinates, defends all of their actions and beliefs (even when Eisenhower disagreed or overruled them), and never even mentions specific names in the couple of instances where he says that commanders were relieved. While this is certainly a laudable trait in a leader, it doesn't make this a particularly insightful book.
Although "Crusade in Europe" lacks that hard-hitting punch, Eisenhower does tell some entertaining and fun personal stories. Because of these stories and Eisenhower's unique perspective on the war, I recommend this book to anyone with an interest in World War II.
Crystal clear mobilization and communication December 29, 2005
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Maybe someone would correct me, but it is my impression that he really wrote this - it does not have the feel of the ghost writer that often comes in to provide the voice-over for the great man.
The personality that comes through is quite similar to that which Eisenhower conveyed in public. Able. Able to create consensus. A listener. Casual. Hands in back pockets. Stern if need be. Analytical. Concerned for his troops.
But most of all the sense emerges of Eisenhower being a modern organization man.
The job for America beginning in 1940 [when Eisenhower is still a colonel] was to mobilize. Eisenhower proved adept at understanding this, and gradually - but not too gradually - bringing the forces to bear. He appreciated amphibious war, tank war, and air war. He came to appreciate all these over many years of basically boring assignments. He also was dedicated to the notion of an allied force, and ready to negotiate through fields of politic and diplomacy to make that work, while enforcing a system of single command in Europe. He worked well with George Marshal [his mentor and patron], Winston Churchill, Bernard Montgomery, George Patton, and Omar Bradley.
And all these things come through crystal clear in Crusade in Europe like a memo from one same man in a mad battlefield.
There is a style of work that culls general's writings, histories, and biographies to find wisdom of war that can be useful today for business leaders. Gee, I wonder why. Somehow, as far as I know, the great World War II leader Eisenhower has not been identified for this treatment. Which is kind of funny. Lee and Patton have been cited so, almost unto nausea. But neither of them have the traits of the modern organization man.
Eisenhower was asked to create a general line of action mere days after Pearl Harbor.
Not brazen was Ike. Looking at the charter to lead. "The question before me was unlimited in its implications and my qualifications for approaching it were probably those of the average hard-working Army officer of my age."
He'd gained over years of staff work an understanding of technology as applied to war making. "..I had been forced to examine world-wide military matters and to study concretely such subjects as the mobilization and composition of armies, the role of air forces and navies in war, tendencies toward mechanization, an the acute dependence of all elements of military life upon the industrial capacity of the nation. This last was to me of especial importance because of my intense belief that the large-scale motorization and mechanization and the development of air forces in unprecedented strength would characterize successful military forces of the future. ... I knew that any sane preparation for war involved also sound plans for the prompt mobilization of industry. The years devoted to work of this kind opened up to me an almost new world." P.19
This is where the story gets going. And he carries the narrative steadily until Hitler's final defeat.
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