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War diaries, 1939-1945 : Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke by Alan Brooke Alanbrooke (Viscount); Alan Francis Brooke Alanbrooke; Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>For most of the Second World War, General Sir Alan Brooke (1883-1963), later Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, was Britain's Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) and Winston Churchill's principal military adviser, and antagonist, in the inner councils of war. He is commonly considered the greatest CIGS in the history of the British Army. His diaries-published here for the first time in complete and unexpurgated form-are one of the most important and the most controversial military diaries of the modern era. The last great chronicle of the Second World War, they provide a riveting blow-by-blow account of how the war was waged and eventually won-including the controversies over the Second Front and the desperate search for a strategy, the Allied bomber offensive, the Italian campaign, the D-day landings, the race for Berlin, the divisions of Yalta, and the postwar settlement.<br>Beginning in September 1939, the diaries were written up each night in the strictest secrecy and against all regulations. Alanbrooke's mask of command was legendary but these diaries tell us what he really saw and felt: moments of triumph and exhilaration, but also frustration, depression, betrayal, and

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Author

Alan Brooke Alanbrooke (Viscount); Alan Francis Brooke Alanbrooke; Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke

Publisher

Berkeley: University of California Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520233010

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.33 / 5 (60 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14