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 probably the least well-known ...

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 ...