Letters to Mamie

Letters to Mamie

Wife, soldier, or Red Cross executive, nearly everyone even indirectly involved in World War II faced extraordinary dislocations in their personal lives. Each experience was different, but much of it - the homesickness, the worries of separation, the love that could only be shared on paper, the daydreams of what life might be like after victory - was universal. As Allied Supreme Commander in Europe, General Eisenhower's personal story of those years, here recorded from the more than 300 letters he wrote home to his wife, Mamie, adds to the universal a special perspective - dealing with Roosevelt, Churchill, Darlan, Truman, and touring starlets; maneuvering General Patton from press defeats to military victories; and living always under the shadow of the momentous events of the war. But what emerges most strongly from these letters - edited, supplemented with commentary, and arranged in diary format by the Eisenhowers' son, John - is a private portrait of a man and of a loving marriage surviving the stresses of wartime separation and intense public scrutiny.

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