Crusade in Europe: Definitive History of World War II in Europe (Avon, W125)

This book made "Ike" a nation-wide superstar, even to the non-fans of war, when it was published in 1948, and can certainly be said to have influenced his election to the presidency!

It's all here, in more than 500 closely-spaced pages: the construction of the Allied European theatre, the strategies both chosen and rejected, the doubts, the triumphs. Liberally illustrated with maps.