Kay Summersby Morgan wrote this book under a death sentence. In late 1973, her doctors gave her six months to live, but Kay stretched it into more than a year -- and lived every day until the very last with her customary gaiety and relish. She wrote this book because she wanted the truth to be known. "I was always extremely discreet," she said. "But now the General is dead. And I am dying. Once I am dead, then I would like this book to speak for me. I would like the world to know the truth of the Eisenhower affair." - From the publisher.

The story I am about to tell happened a long time ago. I ask the reader to be lenient. My sources are my memory, my old blue leather diary -- and my heart. If an occasional time sequence is twisted or a fact misplaced, it is only because of the tricks that memory plays as one grows older. The conversations in this book ring true to my ear and my heart, but it must be understood that they have been reconstructed from my memories. The events that I am writing about meant so much to me, however, and I have lived them over to myself during so many long nights, that I think my story is as close to reality as if it were only last night that I said my unsuspecting goodbye to the General, to Ike, to the man I loved. - Kay Summersby Morgan, on jacket back.

Here, at long last, is the true story of the passionate, moving secret love affair between General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, and Kay Summersby, the beautiful English fashion model who became his driver in wartime London, his staff aide, by his side through every crisis and high-level meeting of the war -- and the woman he loved. Written by Kay Summersby Morgan herself, Past Forgetting is the intimate account of a relationship that began, haltingly, in 1942, when Kay was assigned to drive a then unknown two-star general named Dwight David Eisenhower, and ended in heartbreak when Ike, victor and war hero, returned home to face a disapproving General Marshall, the adoring American public, Mrs. Eisenhower -- and the possibility of becoming President of the United States. Yet Past Forgetting is never a bitter or malicious book; it is the story of two people deeply in love, sharing together the great experiences of the Second World War. - Jacket flap.