A compelling novel about love, betrayal, and ambition by New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert, The General's Women tells the story of two women—Kay Summersby and Mamie Eisenhower—in love with the same man: General Dwight Eisenhower.
Based on Kay's memoirs, Ike's letters, fellow officers' wartime diaries, and extensive research in three decades of newspaper archives, Susan Wittig Albert has created an engrossing and deeply sympathetic novel about their untold story of love, loss, and divided loyalties continues into their postwar lives—and beyond.
"A mature, gripping emotional drama... The arc of this multifaceted novel follows the three main characters [Ike, Kay, and Mamie] and a host of secondary ones through the war and back into civilian life. At every point Albert smoothly incorporates an obviously vast amount of research into a tale of raw emotional conflict that can make for some wonderfully uncomfortable reading." —Kirkus Reviews
"Fascinating and imminently readable."—NetGalley Reviewer,
"Realistic and poignant. It was a relationship that lived on borrowed time, intense as it happened, but doomed to endure. . . Albert sheds light on the rocky path of revisions Summersby's tale took, with some aspects still shadowy. Sometimes the history of a history is a story in and of itself. A not-to-be missed read."—NetGalley Reviewer
"This book is right on the edge of non-fiction with all the facts, people, and historical events that are so elegantly told. . . A wonderful book!"—NetGalley Reviewer
"A fabulous read. I didn't know very much about Eisenhower before reading this book but I was utterly compelled by the realistic story of his and Kay's affair. Really interesting!"—NetGalley Reviewer
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