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When Dwight Eisenhower published his 1948 memoir Crusade in Europe, Second World War veteran John Wesley Pape of Cincinnati, Ohio, had the idea of giving a copy to his son, signed by as many of the leading figures of the war as he could reach.

Starting with President Harry Truman, Pape secured the signatures of 21 people (shown right) over th…

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