This is John Batchelor, conversation with the author Michelle Paradee, his new book The Light of Battle, Eisenhower D-Day, and the birth of the American superpower.

Michelle emphasizes here

here Eisenhower's relationship with the king of the United Kingdom.

Eisenhower's job was to keep the two armies fighting together

no matter the challenges of the map of Europe.

And Eisenhower was very successful.

How did the king think of him?

Here's Michelle to explain.

More of this later tonight.

Oh yeah, the King George, the 6th, loved Dwight Eisenhower.

He called him a soldier of the empire.

He almost treated Eisenhower.

And this shows, you know, Eisenhower's great success

in doing the thing that certainly Roosevelt understood

was the most important thing that Eisenhower

to do is keeping the Anglo-American alliance not only together but fighting cohesively.

You know Eisenhower is, at one. There's a great quote from from George the

sixth that I'm sure how butcher but it's something along the lines of you know

Eisenhower is so American but he's also he has the charms of a little boy which makes you love him.

Right, so Eisenhower thoroughly charmed King George VI, who very much did treat him, you know, as a peer with someone like Montgomery,

as almost as the King himself said as a soldier of the empire.