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| Author | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
|---|---|
| Subject | European Theater during World War II |
| Genre | Autobiography |
| Publisher | Doubleday (US) Heinemann (UK) |
Publication date | 1948 |
| Pages | xiv, 559 pages |
| ISBN | 9780801856686 |
| OCLC | 394251 |
| LC Class | D743.E35 1948 |
Crusade in Europe is a book of wartimememoirs by GeneralDwight D. Eisenhower published byDoubleday in 1948. Maps were provided byRafael Palacios.
Crusade in Europe is a personal account by one of the senior military figures ofWorld War II. It recounts his appointment by GeneralGeorge Marshall to plan the defense of thePhilippines and continues to describe his appointment to, and execution of, the role of Supreme Allied Commander inNorthern Europe.
The book was dictated by Eisenhower to Kenneth McCormick of Doubleday andJoseph Fels Barnes, former foreign editor of theNew York Herald Tribune. It was revised by Eisenhower's aide Kevin McCann.[1][2]
Eisenhower's profit on the book was substantially aided by an unprecedented ruling by theTreasury Department that Eisenhower was not a professional writer, but rather, was marketing the lifetime asset of his experiences, and thus only had to pay capital gains tax on his $635,000 advance rather than the much higher personal income tax rate. The ruling saved Eisenhower approximately $400,000.[3]
In 1948,Twentieth Century Fox obtained the exclusive rights to create a television series calledCrusade in Europe, based on the newly published book. Produced as part ofThe March of Time, the 26-episode TV series showed World War II film footage from the US military and other sources, with a voice soundtrack based on a narration of the book. It aired from May 5 to October 27, 1949.
Crusade in Europe was the first extensive documentary series for television. Aired onABC, the series received aPeabody Award and one of the firstEmmy Awards (Best Public Service, Cultural or Educational Program).[4]
The TV series was the subject of a U.S.copyright andtrademark lawsuit filed in 1998. On appeal, inDastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., 539 U.S. 23 (2003), theSupreme Court of the United States ruled on a narrow issue involving the applicability of theLanham Act to works in thepublic domain.
Crusade in Europe was released on Region 1 DVD October 4, 2011, byMPI Home Video.[5]
As of August 2019, the series is also available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
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