Alanbrooke War Diaries 1939-1945
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Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke
'These are almost certainly the last secrets to be unlocked about the British high command in World War II' DAILY MAIL
'Superb' SPECTATOR'A fascinating daily snapshot of the direction of the greatest war in history by one of the key decision makers' SUNDAY TIMESAlanbrooke was CIGS - Chief of the Imperial General Staff - for the greater part of the Second World War. He acted as mentor to Montgomery and military adviser to Churchill, with whom he clashed. As chairman of the Chiefs of Staff committee he also led for the British side in the bargaining and the brokering of the Grand Alliance, notably during the great conferences with Roosevelt and Stalin and their retinue at Casablanca, Teheran, Malta and elsewhere. As CIGS Alanbrooke was indispensable to the British and the Allied war effort. The diaries were sanitised by Arthur Bryant for his two books he wrote with Alanbrooke. Unexpurgated, they are explosive.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781399601955
- Author: Lord Alanbrooke
- Pub date: 31.01.23
- RRP: $34.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
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Lord Alanbrooke
Until his death in 2016, Alex Danchev was Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. His interests included art, politics and military history although his focus was chiefly biographical. His life of the military historian Basil Liddell Hart was listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize and his unexpurgated edition of the Alanbrooke Diaries was listed for the WHSmith Prize for Biography. Danchev is also the author of major lives of the artists Georges Braque, Paul Cezanne and Rene Magritte. Daniel Todman is Professor of Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of a number of books including The Great War: Myth and Memory and Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947.