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.
[1st ed.]
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Author
Contributions
- Alanbrooke, Alan Brooke, Viscount, 1883-1963. - Contributor
Publication
1957 - Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
156,000 words, Guess
Page Count
624 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6221646M
- OCLC Control Number289614
- OCLC Control Numberturnoftidehistor00brya
- Library of Congress Control Number57006705
- LibraryThing450627
Classifications
- DDC940.5342
- LCCD759 .B78 1957a
Description
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 of the war". Extensive excerpts from the diaries are woven into the text together with comments on the diaries made by Lord Alanbrooke after the war.
Subjects
Topics
Places
Genres
- Diaries.
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