Volume 33, Number 14 · September 25, 1986
Eisenhower's War
By Theodore H. Draper
Eisenhower: At War, 1943–1945
by David Eisenhower
Random House, 977 pp., $29.95
Of all American wars since the Revolution, the Second World War was fought with fewest regrets. Even now, after four decades, hardly anyone looks back at the war disapprovingly. Yet, in retrospect, it came to an end in a peculiarly double-edged way. That the world was rid of a Nazi tyranny will always be its proudest achievement. That it was replaced in almost half of Europe by a Communist tyranny will always darken that achievement. Any balance sheet of what the war finally accomplished cannot ignore the difference between what the war meant for Eastern and for Western Europe.
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