War Diaries, 1939-1945: Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke (精装)

出版时间：1957-12  出版社：Weidenfeld & Nicolson (2001年5月14日)  作者：Alan Brooke Viscount Alanbrooke  页数：763  
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内容概要

THE MOST IMPORTANT AND MOST CONTROVERSIAL MILITARY DIARIES OF THE MODERN ERA. FOR MOST of the Second World War General Sir Alan Brooke, later Field Marshal Lord Alanb rooke, was Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) - Britain's top soldier  and Churchill's principal military adviser, and antagonist, in the inner councils of war. He also led the British military in the bargaining and brokering of the Grand Alliance with Roosevelt and Stalin, in the great conferences at Casablanca, Tehran, Washington and Yalta. By common consent, he was the greatest CIGS in the history of the British Army.     These diaries have never been published, complete, before. In the 1950s Alanbrooke collaborated with the historian Sir Arthur Bryant on The Turn of the Tide and Triumph in the West, which used only a heavily censored selection. Full publication of the diaries was then considered inadvisable, perhaps impossible, not least for fear of libel. Here they are, at last, complete and unexpurgated, offering an unrivalled account from the epicentre of this gargantuan conflict.    They begin in September 1939. Initially written out of love and loneliness, they became both a safety-valve and a moral comfort, written up each night - in contravention of every regulation throughout his stormy tenure. After playing a key part in salvaging what was possible at Dunkirk, he became C-in-C Home Forces. In December 1941, on his appointment as CIGS, the long and intense love-hate relationship between Churchill and Alanbrooke egan the governing partnership of the British war effort.     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 window onto the inner workings 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 (continued on back flap)

书籍目录

List of IllustrationsIntroduction: The Unhappy WarriorNote on the TextAbbreviationsThe CastNote to the Reader28 September 1939-30 May 194012 June 1940-30 November 19411 December 1941-31 December 19421 January-31 December 19431 January-31 December 19441 January-31 August 1945AcknowledgementsIndex