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Brooke was not infallible, but he stuck to his guns in a time of potential global disaster. He held strong opinions about many of his colleagues and expressed them in the privacy of his diary. He detested Charles de Gaulle, was critical of Eisenhower’s military ability, and thought that Marshall ‘could not see beyond the end of his nose’.
Alan Francis Brooke was born in Bagnères-de-Bigorre in France to Victor Brooke of Ulster, a wealthy Northern Irish man. After education in France, he attended Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, England, and graduated as an artillery officer. He served in Ireland and India, then with the Royal Artillery he served in France during WW1.
22 de jul. de 2020 · Lord Alan Francis Brooke, Alex Danchev, and Daniel Todman. London: Phoenix Press, 2002. Among the estimated four billion people currently undergoing some sort of isolation in response to the coronavirus pandemic, I’m surely not the only one who is hoping their political leaders and scientific advisers are taking cues from those who have gone before them in confronting existential challenges.
Brooke, Alan Francis, first Viscount Alanbrooke (1883–1963), army officer, was born at Bagnères de Bigorre, France, on 23 July 1883, the ninth and youngest child and sixth son of Sir Victor Alexander Brooke, third baronet (1843–1891), of Colebrooke in co. Fermanagh, and his wife, Alice Sophia Bellingham (d. 1920), second daughter of Sir Alan Edward Bellingham, third baronet, of Castle ...
19 de dez. de 2020 · Alan Brooke’s diary excesses are in the balance feather-weight, compared to the granite formed of prudence. It should be humbling for any analyst to consider the judgment, intellectual talent, and military skill with which Brooke approached so many difficult decisions—options compressed fiercely in time, which most men were unqualified to make.
Brooke est désigné Baron Alanbrooke (ce qui est une création), de Brookeborough, comté de Fermanagh, en 1945, et Vicomte Alanbrooke en 1946 . Distinguished Service Order à la Première Guerre mondiale. Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Jarretière. Membre de l' Ordre du Mérite en 1946. Chevalier grand-croix de l' Ordre du Bain en 1953.
3 de jun. de 2015 · Alan Francis Brooke 1 served for five years as Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Britain’s highest-ranking army officer, he was the closest military adviser to Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill. Accordingly, in the late Fifties, when he published his World War II diaries, The Turn of the Tide and Triumph in the West, they were something ...
