Allies, Pearl Harbor to D-Day

Dwight D. Eisenhower once remarked that "the history of alliances is a history of failure." This provocative absorbing work based on a study by the General and written by his son is a history of one of the great exceptions the most successful military alliance the world has ever seenthe Anglo-American military alliance of World War II. At once a study of the prodigious undertaking that brought millions of men and women together to defeat the Axis and a portrait of the great personalities who built and sustained the alliance Allies offers vivid glimpses of war at the working level: on a convoy crossing the Atlantic with a secret landing party on the coast of northern Africa and with armored units in Tunisia. Eisenhower has crafted a powerful narrative and a most valuable contribution to the literature of World War II.