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Author:	Lord Alanbrooke
Title:	War Diaries 1939-1945
Publisher:	Phoenix Press
Country:	UK
Date:	2002
Format:	Paperback
Class Number:	940.548141
Genre:	Non-Fiction, History, Biography
ISBN-10:	1842125265
Barcode:	9781842125267
First Published:	2001
Rating:	9.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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ppint. 30th Jul 2020		Rated 9/10 general (later field marshal) sir alan brooke (later viscount alanbrooke) was chief of the imperial general staff - i.e. the professional head of the british armed services - from december 1941, and was probably the greatest professional military strategist of world war two. he was also the only person able to keep winston churchill's wilder flights of military fantasy if not fully under control, then at least usually under reasonable control, and to usually be able to reign-in churchill's unbridled excessive enthusiasms. his comprehensive war diaries were originally substantially published in edited form after various people's accounts - including churchill's - made little, or actually slighting reference to his part in the appreciation, decision-taking and planning of the ultimately successful conduct of the allied armies' (including air forces' and navies') actions in defeating the wehrmacht in africa, and in southern, western and western-central europe. the editing appears to have been largely to remove severe and especially personal criticism of people with whom he worked who were still living at the time of the preparation with him of that edition by sir arthur bryant. a considerable amount of the arguments and reasoning behind the strategic analysis, thinking and decisions made regarding the conduct of the war, and its bearing on broader campaign tactical matters as well as upon narrower battlefield tactics was not widely understood or represented at the time - and is still too-often missed, even in the second decade of the twenty-first century c.e. - and his diaries make fascinating reading, not just for students of warfare in world war two. 9 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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