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Mar 21, 2022 · 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,...
Jan 1, 2002 · War Diaries, 1939-1945 : Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke Paperback – January 1, 2002. by Daniel [Ed Alanbrooke, Field Marshall Lord Alan; Canchev, Alex [Editor]; Todman (Author) 4.5 266 ratings. See all formats and editions. Alanbrooke was CIGS - Chief of the Imperial General Staff - for the greater part of the Second World War.
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War Diaries 1939 1945. 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...
Jan 1, 1998 · An absolutely riveting day by day account of the man at the middle of the British war effort from 1941 to 1945 . Reading the diaries transports you into the period of history as you become more and more familiar with the politicians and generals coordinating the war .
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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 doubt.
May 5, 2003 · 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, a...
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Alan Brooke Alanbrooke (Viscount) Phoenix, 2002 - Marshals - 763 pages. Written initially out of love and loneliness, in the strictest secrecy and against all regulations, these diaries provide...
