This is John Batchel, Conversation with the author Michelle Paradie.

His new book, The Light of Battle, Eisenhower D-Day, and the birth of the American superpower.

Michelle emphasizes 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.

King George, the sixth, loved Dwight Eisenhower. He called him a soldier of the empire. He almost treated Eisenhower. And this just 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 point, there's a great quote from George the sixth,

the I'm sure I'll butcher, but it's something along the lines of, you know, Eisenhower is so American, um, but he's also, he has the charms of a little boy, which makes you love him. Um, right? So Eisenhower thoroughly charmed, uh, King George the Sixth, um, who very much did treat him, um, you know, as, as a peer with someone like Montgomery, as, as almost, as the king himself said, as a soldier of the empire.