Eisenhower in War and Peace

For Secretary Hurley, MacArthur, and George Moseley, the Bonus Army was a ragtag assortment of radicals, aliens, criminals, and social misfits led by a Bolshevik cadre intent on storming the American equivalent of the Winter Palace. For the Army’s high command, overthrow of the government lay just around the corner.57

“Had the Allies held on grimly to the retreating Germans they could have harried the breath out of every man and beast and ended the war half a year earlier.

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Orval Faubus gained what he wanted from the showdown in Little Rock. He portrayed himself as the champion of states’ rights, overwhelmed by massive federal power. For many white citizens of Arkansas, Faubus symbolized resistance to racial integration. His reelection to a third term in 1958—which had seemed unlikely before Little Rock—was guaranteed

Churchill was badly shaken by the fall of Singapore (“the Gibraltar of the Pacific”), and fretted about the fate of Australia and New Zealand.

Not until midafternoon, ten hours later, did the Führer release the panzer divisions to von Rundstedt, and by then there was no hope they could arrive at the beachhead until the following day. To add to the German misfortune, the Luftwaffe put less than a hundred fighters in the air on D-Day, and mounted only twenty-two sorties against Ramsay’s fle

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Kay Summersby had no place in that world, and the burnishers of Eisenhower’s image have worked overtime to eradicate her from the record.

g He was awed by the skill with which French administrators kept North Africa’s Muslim population under control, and was convinced the Allies would have to retain the existing administrative structure to maintain order.