The turn of the tide

a history of the war years based on the diaries of Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff.

by Field Marshal the Viscount Alanbrooke, Arthur Bryant

1957 776 pages eng

The Turn of the Tide is build around the personal diaries of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, who was Chief of the Imerperial General Staff and Churchill's closest military advisor. The author, Sir Arthur Bryant, terms Lord Alanbrooke's diaries "the most important of all contemporary personal records …