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Condition: Very Good. War diaries, 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke ; edited by.

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

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 7th Impression. Hardcover. War Diaies. 1939-1945. The most important and most controversial history diaries of the modern era. These diaries provide a blow-by-blow account of how the Second World War was waged and eventually won, from the man at Churchill's elbow (and sometimes his throat). They open a unique windo onto the inner workins of the Grand Alliance. Alanbrooke's implacable arguments spared no one - politicians, Americans, Russians, Chinese, even his own generals: Wavell, Auchinleck, Montgomery, Slim, Alexander. At home he had to contend with Churchill and minister to Montgomery; abroad, he had to accomodate the Americans and satisfy the Soviets. Roosevelt, Beaverbrook and Eden, all pass in review before him. His diaries tell us what he saw and felt - moments of triumph and exilaration, but also darker things: frustration, depression, betrayal, doubt. This, the last major account of the direction of the Second World War, is as unsparing as its author. Illustrated. 763 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

6th impression of 1st edition. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine under illustrated dustwrapper. 9.5ins x 6.25ins, illustrated endpapers, lii, 763pp plus 8pp b/w illustrations. For most of the second World War Lord Alanbrooke was Chief of the Imperial General Staff - Churchill's principal military adviser. These diaries had not previously been published in a complete and unexpurgated form. VG / VG.

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First English Edition (Second Printing). A very good copy of the Second Printing of the First English edition, in an unclipped dust jacket; virtually mint.The unexpurgated version of Alanbrooke's seminal World War II diaries, restoring many negative musings about Winston Churchill, here published for the first time. 8vo (764 pages with index; illustrated with black and white photographs).