Who should have the right to make that choice: The political leader or the military leader? The general can see the battle clearer than any politician but often can only see the battle and not the war ...

On April 12, 1945, Generals Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton entered Ohrdruf, a subcamp in the Buchenwald concentration camp system. (Eisenhower at Ohrdruf, courtesy of ushmm.org) Eisenhower then cabled ...

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 ...

If the war ends soon, it will be because the Germans never dreamed that General Eisenhower could be such a madman. By last week he had landed well over 1,000,000 men on the Continent (others had ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower stretched out in the back of his staff car, closed his eyes, and tried to sleep. He was bone-tired. A feeling of numbness began creeping over him. For many months all his thoughts ...

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 ...

On Feb. 24, 1946, General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, army chief of staff, landed at El Paso’s Biggs Field at 2:45 p.m. and immediately began a tour of the city. Here's information from two ...

2011-06-11T19:37:33-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/466/20110611193754003_hd.jpgClip: General Eisenhower and the Documentation of the Holocaust Clip: General ...

Whenever I see a transcript of a presidential press conference in the New York Times, I am a little jealous of the reporters who can ask the President of the United States all those questions. Ever ...