num_pages: 816
description: Alanbrooke 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, says Danchev, they are explosive. The American generals, in particular, come in for attack. Danchev proposes to centre his edition on the Second World War. Pre and post-war entries are to be reduced to a Prologue and Epilogue). John Keegan says they are the military equivalent of the Colville Diaries (Churchill's private secretary), THE FRINGES OF POWER. These sold 24,000 in hardback at Hodder in 1985.
language: English
title: War Diaries, 1939-1945 : Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke
titlecomplete: War Diaries, 1939-1945 : Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke
characters: Bertram Sergison-Brooke, Charles de Gaulle, John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Henry Maitland Wilson, Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Anthony Eden, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Bertram Ramsay, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Archibald Nye, Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, James Grigg, Jan Christian Smuts, Joseph Stalin, Bernard Montgomery, George C. Marshall, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Winston Churchill, George VI of the United Kingdom, Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, Leo Amery, Frederick Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers, Ernest Bevin, Ronald Forbes Adam, Henry Pownall, Ernest King, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, John Dill, Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, Dudley Pound, Bernard Paget, Harry Crerar, Oliver Leese, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, Andrew McNaughton, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Claude Auchinleck, Clement Attlee, Henry H. Arnold, Stafford Cripps
genres: Memoir, Autobiography, Military History, Nonfiction, History, War, British Literature, Military Fiction, World War II, Biography
ratings_count: 215
publisher: Phoenix Press