Publisher's abstract: This book was recognized in the United States as the best ever written about Eisenhower. Drawing on extensive sources, high level of scientific knowledge. S. Ambrose offered the most complete and objective description of the life of a soldier who became president. The author talks in detail about Eisenhower's early years, his almost invisible career in the army at first, his brilliant leadership of the Allied forces as supreme commander during the Second World War, and the difficulties this man had to face on his way from general to President of Columbia University to President of the United States.