The White House Years Eisenhower, Dwight D. Americana,Bibliography,Presidents,Signed Limited Edition

Both Volumes Signed by "Ike" EISENHOWER, Dwight D. The White House Years. Mandate for Change 1953-1956 [&] Waging Peace 1956-1961. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963 & 1965. One of 1,500 numbered copies numbered, signed in each volume by Dwight Eisenhower. Two octavo volumes (9 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches; 238 x 162 mm.).[xx], [1]-650; [xxiv], [1]-741, 1, blank] pp. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Each volume limited to 1,500 numbered copies (numbers 939 & 234 respectively). Each volume with a tipped-in leaf with the ink signature of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Publishers gray buckram, front covers with the President's 'Seal' stamped in gilt, spines blocked in green and lettered in gilt, pictorial 'map' endpapers, foredges uncut. Original glassine wrappers, housed in the publisher's cardboard slipcases, front panels wo=ith dark green labels lettered in gilt. A very fine set. Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank as General of the Army. Eisenhower planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of World War II: Operation Torch in the North Africa campaign in 1942-1943 and the invasion of Normandy in 1944.