Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Michel Paradis talked about his book, "The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day and the Birth of the American Superpower," and the role of ...

Georgia’s Fort Gordon was re-designated Fort Eisenhower on Friday, becoming the last of nine Army posts to be stripped of their former Confederate general names. “Change is often necessary, but not ...

Prior to World War II, Dwight Eisenhower had resigned himself to finishing out a distinguished but unremarkable military career. By 1943, however, he found himself serving as Supreme Commander, Allied ...

Gettysburg entered Dwight D. Eisenhower's life long before he became a general or president. In 1915, he arrived there as a West Point cadet, studying the ground where the Civil War's most famous ...

It is difficult to believe that there is anything new to say about the role played by General Dwight D. Eisenhower in the D-Day operation, but Michel Paradis has done so. The Light of Battle is a ...

One day last spring General George C. Marshall summoned Dwight David (“Ike”) Eisenhower to his office and said to him: “You’re going over to command the European divisions. When can you leave?” ...