Sublime

The Battle of the Bulge was Ike’s finest hour as a military commander.

An officer should have the following qualities: great powers of endurance so that in spite of any hardship he sets an example to his men and is a model for them; he must be able to mix easily with the people; his spirit and that of the men must be one in strengthening the policy of resistance to the Japanese. If he wishes to gain victories, he must

The German troops had a saying about him: Where Rommel is, there is the front.

In an Army where Marshall depended on officers like Eisenhower and Bradley to do their jobs quietly, to conciliate, and to persuade, he required others like Smith who could hack a path through red tape and perform hatchet jobs.”

As he had done at every engagement at which it had been my privilege to observe him, the king stripped and worked alongside his warriors, shirking nothing, but pausing to address individuals, calling by name those he knew, committing to memory the names and even nicknames of others heretofore unknown to him, often clapping these new mates upon the

Ike has received precious little credit for this, but it is a perfect example of what a quick learner he was. He had suffered through the chaos brought about by American policies in North Africa, when he had paid too much attention to Robert Murphy and the wishes of the president, and he was not about to let that happen again. No other American gen

Ronald Fry’s Hammerhead Six: How Green