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.
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. They expose the gulf
between the military and the politicians of the War Cabinet, and
how often military strategy was misguided and nearly derailed by
political prejudices. They also reveal the incredible strain on
Alanbrooke of the Allied conferences in Washington, Moscow,
Casablanca, Quebec, and Tehran, as he tried after intense and
exhausting argument (not least with Churchill) to match Allied
strategy with the reality of British military power and the
fragility of the British Empire. These diaries demonstrate the true
depth of Alanbrooke's rage and despair at Churchill's failure to
grasp overall strategy. This was particularly acute in the winter
of 1943-44 when Churchill, fueled by medicine and alcohol, no
longer seemed master of himself.
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