{"product_id":"war-diaries-19391945-9780297607311","title":"War Diaries  1939-1945","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlanbrooke was CIGS - Chief of the Imperial General Staff - for the greater part of the Second World War. He acted as mentor to Montgomery and military adviser to Churchill  with whom he clashed. As chairman of the Chiefs of Staff committee he also led for the British side in the bargaining and the brokering of the Grand Alliance  notably during the great conferences with Roosevelt and Stalin and their retinue at Casablanca Teheran  Malta and elsewhere. As CIGS Alanbrooke was indispensable to the British and the Allied war effort. The diaries were sanitised by Arthur Bryant for his two books he wrote with Alanbrooke. Unexpurgated  says Danchev  they are explosive. The American generals  in particular  come in for attack. Danchev proposes to centre his edition on the Second World War. Pre and post-war entries are to be reduced to a Prologue and Epilogue). John Keegan says they are the military equivalent of the Colville Diaries (Churchills private secretary)  THE FRINGES OF POWER. These sold 24 000 in hardback at Hodder in 1985.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279717064757,"sku":"ByrdShop_0297607316","price":78.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780297607311.jpg?v=1780607276","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/war-diaries-19391945-9780297607311","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}