Overall: 23.5cm (9.2in) x 28cm 11(in)
Monochrome photograph of the 34th President of the United States seated at his desk in service dress uniform with a copy of ‘The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’ (1949) before him. Inscribed by the sitter ‘Dwight D. Eisenhower’. SHAPE wetstamp credit to verso. Image size: 20cm (8in) x 25cm (10in). Contained in faux crocodile leather easel backed glazed frame.
Dwight David ‘Ike' Eisenhower (1890-1969) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. Appointed a five-star general in 1944 at the start of the German Ardennes counter-offensive, he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe with responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa (Operation Torch, 1942-43) and the invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45. He became the first supreme commander of NATO.