Title: The turn of the tide
Subtitle: a history of the war years based on the diaries of Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff.
First published: 1957
Description: The Turn of the Tide is build around the personal diaries of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, who was Chief of the Imerperial General Staff and Churchill's closest military advisor. The author, Sir Arthur Bryant, terms Lord Alanbrooke's diaries "the most important of all contemporary personal records of the war". Extensive excerpts from the diaries are woven into the text together with comments on the diaries made by Lord Alanbrooke after the war.
Subjects: Diaries, Generals, World War, 1939-1945, Campaigns, Marshals, Krijgshandelingen, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Biography: general, British & Irish history: Second World War, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Great Britain
Places: Great Britain
People: Alan Brooke Alanbrooke Viscount (1883-1963), Alan Brooke Alanbrooke Viscount, Alan Francis Brooke Alanbrooke Viscount (1883-1963), Alan Francis Brooke Alanbrooke 1st Viscount (1883-1963)
LC classification: D759 B78