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Nov 1, 1976 · In this book, Kay Summersby Morgan, recalls her days as General Dwight D. Eisenhower's personal driver, office assistant, and aide during World War II in which her closeness to the General turns into a deep and mutual romantic love.
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Her 1975 autobiography, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower, was explicit about there being a romance, although it also said they had not actually had sexual intercourse. However, she did not dictate the text.
Mar 11, 2018 · Kay Summersby never stopped loving US General Eisenhower, writes James MacManus, the author of a fictionalised account of the affair between the Irish divorcee and the head of the Allied...
- Irish Independent
A compelling novel about love, betrayal, and ambition, The General’s Women tells the story of two women—Kay Summersby and Mamie Eisenhower—in love with the same man: General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Aug 19, 2019 · It is 1942, and war-battered London plays host to the imposing figure of General Ike Eisenhower on a vital mission for the US army. Kay Summersby, an ambulance driver who survived the horrors of the Blitz, is chosen to be his aide, a role that will change her life forever.
In 1942, Kay Summersby's life is changed forever when she is conscripted to drive General Eisenhower on his fact-finding visit to wartime London. Despite Eisenhower's marriage to Mamie, the pair takes an immediate liking to each other, and he buys Kay a rare wartime luxury: a box of chocolates.
- James MacManus
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Nov 20, 2015 · Kay left the army shortly after being the victim of an attempted rape — her attacker got 15 years. Even then, the Summersby-Eisenhower relationship was not over. She continued to write to Ike and to ‘bump into’ him. Fifteen newspaper editors put up $1,000 each to bug her phone on the assumption that she was still seeing him.
