Grand Crosses of the Order of the Redeemer - Dwight D. Eisenhower, Josip Broz Tito, Juan Carlos I of Spain, Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 136. Chapters: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Josip Broz Tito, Juan Carlos I of Spain, Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, George VI of the United Kingdom, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Olav V of Norway, Margrethe II of Denmark, Harald V of Norway, Haakon VII of Norway, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, Michael of Romania, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Abbas II of Egypt, Aleksander Kwa niewski, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Constantine II of Greece, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Elizabeth II, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Jan Smuts, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Akihito, Queen Sofia of Spain, Henry Hughes Wilson, Valdas Adamkus, Bhupinder Singh of Patiala, Fuad I of Egypt, Richard Church, Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, Emile Lahoud, Stylianos Gonatas, Hussein Kamel of Egypt, Arthur Winnington-Ingram. Excerpt: Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower ( -z n-how- r; October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969) was a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961, and the last to be born in the 19th century. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45, from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO. A Republican, Eisenhower entered the 1952 presidential race to counter the non-interventionism of Sen. Robert A. Taft, and to crusade against "Communism, Korea and corruption." He won by a landslide, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson and ending two decades of the New Deal Coalition holding the White House. As President, Eisenhower concluded negotiations with China to end the Korean War. His New Look, a policy of nuclear deterrence, gave priority to inexpensive nuclear weapons while reducing the funding for the other military forces to keep pressure on t...