Battling Hitler and Churchill . Britain’s Alan Francis Brooke (1883-1963), 1st Viscount Allanbrooke, who served as the British Army’s Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1941 through the1946), is ...

Viscount Alanbrooke was a career soldier who came from a renowned military family. He was regarded as one of the best strategists and military thinkers of his generation and rose to become Chief ...

Sangster, Andrew: Alanbrooke, Churchill’s Right-hand Critic: A Reappraisal of Lord Alanbrooke (Casemate, 2021). Bryant, Arthur: The Turn of the Tide 1939–1943: Based on the War Diaries of Field ...

Both Marshall and Brooke had fought in the First World War. Both knew the horrors of trench warfare and stalemate on the battlefield. Both wanted action that would be effective and not too bloody.