"Leave Kay alone, she's helping Ike win the war." Kay did indeed go to America but not to join Eisenhower. Ambition trumped lust, love, obsession, whatever it was that had bound Eisenhower to the woman with whom he had spent almost every day of his war. Kay Summersby settled in New York and married again. James MacManus's historical novel Ike and Kay has just been published by DuckworthIndo Review

Source: Irish Independent March 11, 2018 02:26 UTC