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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: 152. Chapters: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Porfirio Diaz, Josip Broz Tito, Isoroku Yamamoto, Juan Carlos I of Spain, Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, George VI of the United Kingdom, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Olav V of Norway, Margrethe II of Denmark, Harald V of Norway, Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, Haakon VII of Norway, Katsura Tar, Aleksander Kwa niewski, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway, T g Heihachir, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Abdullah II of Jordan, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Sait Makoto, Elizabeth II, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Akihito, Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, Valdas Adamkus, Emperor Taish, Vaira V e-Freiberga, Qaboos bin Said al Said, Amha Selassie of Ethiopia, Fuad I of Egypt, Yamagata Aritomo, Putra of Perlis, Azlan Shah of Perak, Yamamoto Gonnohy e, Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, Prince Arisugawa Takehito, Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu, Kat Tomosabur, Prince Fushimi Sadanaru, Itoh Sukeyuki, Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi, Inoue Yoshika, Kawamura Kageaki, Prince Takeda Tsunehisa. 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 ...