Three Years with Eisenhower - The Personal Diary of Captain Harry C Butcher, USNR, Naval Aide to General Eisenhower 1942-1945

William Heinemann Ltd, 1946, 1st edition

This book was written in the midst of mighty happenings, as they were occurring, and therefore it records highly personal and even trivial matters side by side with the history of the world struggle. Although its tone is informal, it deals with the day-to-day life of the Allied Supreme Commander in the gloomy summer of 1942, through North Africa, Sicily, and the early days of Italy to Operation Eclipse and the final disintegration of the German armed forces...