Eisenhower and Churchill

"Although born and raised more than an ocean apart, Dwight Eisenhower and Winston Churchill - the two titans of the greatest generation - led remarkably parallel lives whose paths would intersect during history's most harrowing days. Through their youth, education, and military training, both men experienced similar triumphs and failures that shaped their lives, though they met only for the first time upon the eve of war in 1941.".

"Eisenhower and Churchill tells the story of these two leaders and their partnership in war and peace. James C. Humes illuminates the human side of each man, who had more in common with each other than a world war.

You'll discover the extraordinary stories of how both were born to domineering mothers and failed fathers, both did not qualify for the military academy on the first try, both were traumatized by experiences in World War I, both were talented writers, and both lost a child in the very same year (1921).

Remarkably, each man did not warm to the other at first; but as they worked together, their respect for one another grew to become a powerful friendship that lived long after the echoes of war had receded into the past."--BOOK JACKET.