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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 82. Chapters: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Claude Auchinleck, Claire Lee Chennault, Chesty Puller, James M. Masters, Sr., Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Frederick J. Horne, Lewis William Walt, Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr., Robert T. Smith, Alfredo M. Santos, John P. Lucas, Li Mi, Wallace M. Greene, Hu Zongnan, Samuel L. Howard, Wilburt S. Brown, Thomas Hinman Moorer, Henry Crowe, Sun Li-jen, Keller E. Rockey, Louis E. Woods, Charles Bond, John Dale Ryan, David Lee "Tex" Hill, George E. Stratemeyer, Bruce K. Holloway, Qiu Qingquan, Carlos Talbott, John W. Vogt, Jr., Richard Peirse, Hunter Harris, Jr., Gabriel P. Disosway, Edward F. Rector, Huang Wei, Bernard Chacksfield, Alan Bruce Blaxland, Marcos G. Soliman. Excerpt: Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower ( -z n-how- r; October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969) was a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961, and the last to be born in the 19th century. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45, from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO. A Republican, Eisenhower entered the 1952 presidential race to counter the non-interventionism of Sen. Robert A. Taft, and to crusade against "Communism, Korea and corruption." He won by a landslide, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson and ending two decades of the New Deal Coalition holding the White House. As President, Eisenhower concluded negotiations with China to end the Korean War. His New Look, a policy of nuclear deterrence, gave priority to inexpensive nuclear weapons while reducing the funding for the other...
