Alanbrooke Field Marshall (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First. very nice copy.

Paperback. Condition: New. 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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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 815 pages. 9.00x6.00x2.00 inches. In Stock.

2 vol. Collins, London 1957-59. 766;576 pages. Both volumes are third impression. With maps on endpapers. Orig. cloth in dust wrappers. First volumes with a weak inner front hinge and repaired wrapper. Near fine-/very good++ wrappers. * Based on the War Diaries of Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke.

2 volumes. Collins, London 1957-59. 766 + 576 pages. Both volumes are thrid impression. With maps on endpapers. Publisher's cloth in dust wrappers. Near fine/near fine. * Based on the War Diaries of Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo, [two volumes], [ii], 766pp, [2]; [ii], 576pp. Publisher's cloth, title stamped in gilt on both volumes. Both volumes are first impressions, with no additional printings noted. Frontispiece portrait in both volumes, with nine maps in text. Both volumes in near fine condition, light wear from handling to volume I, a few thumb marks to fore-edge of text block. Both volumes with solid text blocks, internally clean. Includes the publisher's dust jackets, "30/- net" retail price on the front flap, bright and vibrant colors, even sunning to spines. Volume I is signed by Alanbrooke, on the author's bookplate: "Autographed Copy Of The Turn Of The Tide By Sir Arthur Bryant / Alanbrooke." The private diaries of Alan Brooke, First Viscount Alanbrooke, were edited by the distinguished historian Arthur Bryant. Alanbrooke never intended for the diaries to become public, writing them to vent his frustration with British leadership and as a record for his wife. He reluctantly changed his mind after Winston Churchill released his war memoirs and gave little credit to Alanbrooke or his fellow commanders for field tactics. The diaries released by Arthur Bryant were abridged since Alanbrooke did not want to criticize anyone who was still alive. The full diaries were released in 2001 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, titled War Diaries 1939-1945, edited by Daniel Todman and Alex Danchev. The first edition of the War Diaries of Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke: The Turn of the Tide and Triumph in the West, signed by Field Marshall Alanbrooke. (illustrator). Signed.…