The Eisenhower Years Ike & World War II In 1944, while working
as a temporary instructor in the Department of Industrial
Journalism and Printing at Kansas State College, Davis was urged
by Milton Eisenhower, the college president, to write a
biography of Eisenhower's brother, General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
When Davis was granted war correspondent status attached to
SHAEF by Doubleday and Company in London and Normandy during
World War II, being attached to General Eisenhower's
headquarters, he started collecting research material for his
book. The biography, published in 1945, titled Soldier of
Democracy: A Biography of Dwight Eisenhower, was the beginning
of Davis' history writing career. "Taken at Eisenhower's
personal camp between Bayern and St. Lo, in Normandy. August
(probably) of 1944." Handwritten on back of photo Kenneth S.
Davis. General Eisenhower: Soldier of Democracy, From Boyhood to
Supreme Commander. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.),
1949 "Whatever a man really is, deep inside him, is