Ike and Kay [electronic resource]
MacManus, James2018
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Highly acclaimed author and managing director of The Times Literary Supplement, James MacManus, creates a compelling historical novel that brings to life an unbelievable but true love story set during the Second World War.In 1942, Cork-born Kay Summersby’s life is changed forever when she is tasked with driving General Eisenhower on his fact-finding visit to wartime London. Despite Eisenhower’s marriage to Mamie, the pair takes an immediate liking to one another and he gifts Kay a rare wartime luxury: a box of chocolates.So begins a tumultuous relationship that against all military regulation sees Kay travelling with Eisenhower on missions to far flung places before the final assault on Nazi Germany. She becomes known as “Ike’s shadow” and in letters Mamie bemoans his new obsession with ‘Ireland’. That does not stop him from using his influence to grant Kay US citizenship and rank in the US army, drawing her closer when he returns to America. When the US authorities discover Eisenhower’s plans to divorce from his wife they threaten the fragile but passionate affair and Kay is forced to take desperate measures to hold onto the man she loves…
Main title:
Ike and Kay [electronic resource] / MacManus, James.
Author:
MacManus, James, authorCloud
Imprint:
[S.l.] : Gerald Duckworth & Co, 2018.
Collation:
1 online resource356 p.
Notes:
Electronic book.Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] Gerald Duckworth & Co 2018 Available via World Wide Web.
System details:
Format: Adobe EPUBRequires: cloudLibrary (file size: 1.8 MB)
ISBN:
9780715652961
Language:
English
BRN:
3323000
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