A SUNDAY TIMES top ten best-seller Reissued to coincide with a major Channel 4 documentary series on Churchill's Warlords o A book of immense historical significance - these are likely to be the last memoirs or diaries emanating from the second world war containing any sensational new discoveries or insights. o Scathing assessments of all the principals on the Allied side - Churchill, de Gaulle, Eisenhower, Montgomery, Stalin, Eden and Mountbatten. o First unexpurgated edition. o 'The present editors have done a superb job of restoration, cleaning off Bryant's heavy varnish, restoring the original text, confining Brooke's post-war comments to the bare minimum and their own to a brief explanatory introduction.' - Sir Michael Howard, Spectator 'The diaries provide a fascinating daily snapshot of the direction of the greatest war in history by one of the key decision makers' Sunday Times.
Alex Danchev is currently Professor of International Relations at Keele University. He has held fellowships at King's College, London, St Antony's College, Oxford and the Wilson Center in Washington DC.
Superb
*SPECTATOR*
These are almost certainly the last secrets to be unlocked about
the British high command in World War II
*DAILY MAIL*
The Alanbrooke diaries chart a deeply troubled journey by a deeply
moral man through the confusion and indecision of high command at
the most difficult time in world history ... This is a marvellous
book, one that finally honours a man who helped save European
civilisation
*IRISH TIMES*
The diaries provide a fascinating daily snapshot of the direction
of the greatest war in history by one of the key decision
makers
*SUNDAY TIMES*
This welcome publication of [Alanbrooke's] unexpurgated diaries -
earlier versions were censored - should make him more widely known
... an essential tool for students of the war ... It is also to the
credit of the editors that we see beyond the fascinatingly personal
to the truly historical
*SUNDAY TELEGRAPH*
Those who thought the major documents of the war against Hitler had
already appeared must think again. For with the publication of the
unvarnished text from the diaries of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke
of Brookeborough, we can all focus more sharply on how high command
in a great war works
*THE TIMES*
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