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General dwight eisenhower once again commands a diverse army that must find its single purpose. The steel wave picks up right where the rising tide left off with the normandy invasion and pattons sweep across europe. Shaara talked about the book at the bookworm store in omaha, nebraska, telling the stories of patton, eisenhower, and rommel, and he read a. As jeff has done so many times before, this story is told through the points of view of some of.
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