This one-volume life of the general who organized the D-day invasion, and the president whose two terms defined the 1950s in America, is a fair and balanced portrait of a man who excelled in war and peace. John Wukovits charts Ike's e...

In November 1943, the men of the 2nd Marine Division watched as bombardments destroyed the Japanese defenses on an islet in the Tarawa atoll. But when the Marines landed, the Japanese poured out of their protective bunkers and began o...