The War Diaries Of Lord Alanbrooke

The first complete and unexpurgated edition of the war diaries of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke - the most important and controversial military diaries of the modern era.

For most of the Second World War General Sir Alan Brooke, later Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, 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. Full publication was considered inadvisable, 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.