The turn of the tide 1939-1943 : a study based on the diaries and autobiographical notes of Field Marshal the Viscount Alanbrooke / Arthur Bryant.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : The Reprint Society London, 1958.Description: x, 637 p. : ill. ; 19 cmSubject(s): DDC classification: - 820.82 BRY
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| 820.8006 MEL British literature, 1780-1830 / | 820.80954 VEN Magical Women : | 820.809541 SIN Centrepiece : | 820.82 BRY The turn of the tide 1939-1943 : a study based on the diaries and autobiographical notes of Field Marshal the Viscount Alanbrooke / | 820.9 AZH New bearings in English studies : | 820.9 AZH New bearings in English studies : | 820.9 BAT English literature : a very short introduction / |
The day when heaven was falling -- The winning of the initiative.
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.
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