Alanbrooke alludes to one of these interviews when he asked me whether Franco would take the opportunity of closing the Straits and decapitating the Allied armies, when once they had been committed to the North African coast. He has an unfortunate trick of pick- ing up some isolated operation, and without ever really having it looked into, setting his heart on it. He knows what to select from them, he knows also how to fill in the back- ground without obtruding himself into the pic- ture. This is the period when Gort was still Com- mander-in-Chief in France, and Alexander and Montgomery were making their reputations as Divisional Commanders. But in this latter case their differences were finally settled by frank and often fierce argument, rather than by the devious expedients to which Lloyd George had such frequent recourse. The result is deeply personal, and sometimes petulant, as full of grousing as a book of Ernie Pyle cartoons, but with little saving humor. There are at least three reasons for this. His military plans and ideas varied from the most brilliant conceptions at the one end to the wildest and .most dangerous ideas at the other. 450, 532, 515; see also 521. How worth while it was to put up with all the great man's faults when they were counterbalanced by these essential gifts! It is clear their argument is failing when instead of evidence they tell us to accept an “unspeakable corollary of the unspoken thought…”. “He literally knows nothing of the requirements of a commander in action,” wrote Alanbrooke: “…a very, very limited brain from a strategic point of view.”3, More upsetting, at least to the British, battle-hardened UK officers are equally inept at strategy. Then a white shirt which refused to join comfortably round his neck and so was left open with a bow- tie to keep it together. But he also has nothing to say about the early 1943 Casablanca trip and its “Unconditional Surrender” declaration, which concerned Eisenhower, Churchill, and others during the war and later became the subject of books.15 There is nothing about concentration camps or genocide, nor on the contentious plan by the U.S. Treasury Secretary to “pastoralize” postwar Germany. Unlike Julius Caesar, Marshal Saxe and Sir Winston Churchill, he was not thinking of posterity. In that it mirrors the British sense that they should focus on the European theater. For Lord Alanbrooke has left a day-to-day account of his impressions that was not originally intended for publication. For instead of wish- ing to exploit the victories of Alexander and Montgomery for a swift campaign on the Italian mainland, they drifted back to the conception of a self-contained operation that would end at the toe of Italy, or at most at the Foggia aerodrome on the western coast. There was then no one to say it. The main protagonists were the prime minister, Winston Churchill, and the foreign secretary, Viscount Halifax.The dispute escalated to crisis point and threatened the continuity of the Churchill government. Which of them imagined that it would be funny to follow up their twelve well-composed pages on “The Cast”—mini-biographies of important figures like Molotov, Harriman, Eden, and Attlee—with similar paragraphs in the same typeface on five of the wild birds mentioned by Alanbrooke? Three pages after the story about the fish that got away, Alanbrooke states that not for anything on earth would he have missed the chance to work for Churchill.23. He was equally spicy about Churchill’s friends and associates. Even when some kind of agreement had been reached, it looked as if the Americans were going to run out in the end. The books are by Everett Holies (1945); Anne Armstrong (1961); and Raymond O’Connor (1971). My statement about Churchill does not apply to his WW2 history, but to his papers of the years specified and held in The Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College, Cambridge. No one says otherwise. 15. Winston Churchill is the figure most often poked with Alanbrooke’s pen. Despite this crucial role, he is very little known compared to military commanders such as Montgomery, Alexander, Slim, Mountbatten, Patton, or Eisenhower. There then began one of the most interesting and important chapters in British military history., From the first, Alanbrooke was fully aware of the startling contrast between his own and the Prime Minister's temperaments. Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, KG, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO & Bar (23 July 1883 – 17 June 1963), was a senior officer of the British Army. Perhaps the explanation of Alanbrooke’s view on politics is that he was a very traditional military man. As Churchill’s principle military advisor and as someone also once said, “chief antagonist” during his period as CIGS, Churchill chose a man in General Alan Brooke as he was then, that he well knew would challenge his very authority. How well I remember the sittings of the War Cabinet during the depressing months between August, 1939, and the summer of 1940! Gort, according to Alanbrooke's notes, lacked the necessary staff training for his high post. . We are told of Churchill’s “black dog” but we are not told the words don’t appear in this diary. 'My stomach is my clock,' the Prime Minister told him in the flying boat that was taking them to America in June, 1942. There was an even more formidable difficulty than any that Churchill's exuberant mind might create. Danchev and Todman do not adequately address the character of the “restored” materials in the diaries. A most interesting procedure. In any case, the days passed, the German reinforcements were given time to arrive, and the Italians ceased to be. The main protagonists were the prime minister, Winston Churchill, and the foreign secretary, Viscount Halifax.The dispute escalated to crisis point and threatened the continuity of the Churchill government. The need was to find this resolute man, not, indeed, to cramp Churchill's genius as a great national leader, but to insist upon the hard facts of war, and to confine military policy within the strict boundaries of existing conditions. No two men could have been more unlike. Gort, the Commander-in-Chief in France, the French Staff, and most notably, Hitler himself, were all agreed upon this. On the whole the PM has never enlightened them much.”19. Alanbrooke liked to finish his office work at eight in the evening and to begin it punctually at 9 a.m. Churchill did not get up until late in the morning, liked his meals every four hours, and would on occasion have two whiskies and sodas and a bottle of champagne before a breakfast of eggs and white wine. Churchill wished him to re- form the army on British soil, and then return to France to hold Brittany as an Allied redoubt. All Rights Reserved. There followed a chapter in which the Italians were constantly putting out peace feelers in Madrid. 10. Here is another example taken from the diary of March 24, 1943: During the meeting the P.M. sent for me. No—he “has not got the brains.” Lord Louis Mountbatten, Chief of Combined Operations, is “quite irresponsible, suffers from the most desperate illogical brain, always producing red herrings.”5, With senior military men so appalling, one must expect a mere politician to be still worse, and Churchill obliges: “temperamental like a film star” and “peevish like a spoilt child,” often picking up on “some isolated operation and without ever really having looked into it, setting his heart on it.” Churchill presses so hard for invading Sumatra (as a first step to recapturing Singapore) that Alanbrooke begins “to wonder whether I was Alice in Wonderland, or whether I was really fit for a lunatic asylum I don’t know where we are or where we are going as regards strategy, and I just cannot get him to face the true facts!” WSC has “no long term vision….In all his plans he lives from hand to mouth. confined to the house for security reasons [this is a note on the landing at Gibraltar on August 24, 1943]. In the meanwhile the land- ing craft sent for Torch should go to the Pacific, the Italian campaign should be halted, and, at the same time, the invasion of France begin in 1942 or 1943 rather than 1944. But within this general agreement there were many differences of opinion. We were told that we did nothing but obstruct his intentions, we had no ideas of our own, and whenever he produced ideas, we produced nothing but objections.. . Even more necessary was it to remember that military strategy should never break loose from the solid framework of ineluctable facts. With the possibility of the. Churchill and Alanbrooke admired some of the same generals, especially Montgomery, and certain aggressive division commanders. 659-68; my copy was courtesy of Mr. Mark Whisler. Probably, for nothing else in these diaries can pretend to justify the obscene thought that Alanbrooke truly wished Churchill dead. Books, Arts & Curiosities – Alanbrooke on Churchill: Finest Hour 110, Spring 2001. He was known for self-control, power, and determination; but writing privately, in late hours of interminable days, Alanbrooke permitted himself anger, fatigue, and despair. He fought in the battle of the Somme and introduced the French "creeping barrage" system. Incidents such as these add up to something more than bright gossip. Introduction to the Diaries, p. xxiv. Ordinary men and women liked to think of him as different from other people. Alanbrooke was one of the leading lights of the Allied effort in the Second World War. When I drew his attention to the fact that when he put his left foot down, he should know where the right foot was going to, he shook his fist in my face, saying: do not want any of, your long time projects, they cripple initiative.'. Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, KG, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO & Bar (23 July 188317 June 1963), was a senior commander in the British Army.He was the Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the Second World War, and was promoted to Field Marshal in 1944. Alanbrooke was one of the leading lights of the Allied effort in the Second World War. While praising Churchill’s witty speeches and handling of the meetings, Alanbrooke scorned his opposite number, a Turkish field marshal, for having “no conception of the administrative aspect of handling armies.” Postwar additions to the diary pages dwell mostly on socially-awkward moments of that trip, including the time Alanbrooke annoyed his hosts by staring out the window at a wild bird.9. Alanbrooke’s views on other choices were often the result of his strategic focus. Their inescapable lesson was the necessity of con- centrating upon the great objective in the West, and of never underrating the military strength of the enemy, particularly their strength in the air. Share by Email, The most recent issues of Finest Hour are available online to members. He was the seventh and youngest child of Sir Victor Brooke, 3rd Baronet, of Colebrooke, Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Ireland, and the former Alice Bellingham, second daughter of Sir Alan Bellingham, 3rd Baronet, of Castle Bellingham in County Louth.Brooke was educated in Pau, France, where he lived until the age of 16. It is unseemly to be overly fascinated by the diaries’ underside. The reader thus moves with incredulity from subsections on “The Soldiers” to “The Politicians” to “The Birds.” This is flippancy, not history. 1. 22. They have a real impor- tance. This passage could have been written by Clausewitz or Churchill; it appears in Churchill’s The World Crisis, vol. The reader waits, entry after entry, for the diaries to reveal evidence that could have inspired their fantasy. Here, systematic analytic work would have helped the new edition much more than forays into disparagement of the first editor and the fashionably-modern hunt for “feet of clay” on politicians and generals. They applauded his particular turns and expected them on every great occasion. For Churchill, there certainly was. Telling the story marvelously, the diary says, “I could have shot them both.” This can be read as a joke or a cuss. This 2001 presentation will never be called generous to anyone, including Alanbrooke. A flicker of comfort suddenly came from an unexpected quarter. That leaves Alanbrooke, Britain’s leading military adviser, with exactly two civilian bosses in direct line above him: Minister of Defence and Prime Minister, both of them with the same name: Winston S. Churchill.10, Another reason for the criticism of Churchill is high-minded and strategic, if not necessarily correct. It ensured that the ground between the enemy's trench lines was covered and minimized the amount of exposure by advancing infantry to machinegun fire. He wanted to discuss a telegram from Anthony Eden forwarded on from Sam Hoare. His diaries show deep concern and thoughtful judgment on many difficult military problems. He longed to leave things political to politicians, while he breathed and fought in the realm of high strategy—where he expected full support from ministers. Britain’s highest-ranking army officer, he was the closest military adviser to Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill. See also Andrew Roberts, “Not For Publication?” Finest Hour 111, Summer 2001; and Christophe Harmon, “Alanbrooke and Churchill,” Finest Hour 112, Autumn 2001. 1942: 'Just as we had settled down at our morning C.O.S. The other, looming even larger, is a soldier-turned-statesman, who probably saved the West. The Turn of the Tide, to be completed by a sequel that will take the diaries to the end of the war, covers the critical period between the out- break of war and the start of the Italian cam- paign. . In the First World War Lloyd George was constantly at issue with Haig and Robertson, although he never involved himself with them in a frontal battle. As he was absent at the early summits with Americans, it is not surprising that he makes no mention of the Atlantic Charter or the Declaration of the United Nations. Diaries, p. 685. Danchev & Todman, introduction, p. xviii. It was obvious from the start that the new CIGS and the Prime Minister would not see alike. Your feedback will help us improve the Spectator Archive. '1 was quite clear in my own mind,' writes Alanbrooke on December 3, 1942, 'that the moment for the opening of the Western Front had not yet come and would not present itself during 1943. But it is less clear if they added to his respectability. If soldiers saw the damage, they probably thought of how bombers could do in safety the grim work of urban war that might have killed thousands of Allied infantrymen.14, Despite being Churchill’s senior military commander and adviser, Alanbrooke seemed disinterested in the political issues of the war. Both believed Germany must be defeated before Japan. The British were pumping considerable military aid into Turkey, but when he attended a high-level covert visit to Adana in early 1943, Alanbrooke showed only modest interest in Turkish collaboration. Doubts and diffi- culties faded before him. Alanbrooke was the master strategist of the British military effort. What then followed will form one of the main subjects of the next volume of Alanbrooke's notes. In May 1940, during the Second World War, the British war cabinet was split on the question of whether to make terms with Nazi Germany or to continue hostilities. One is a first-class general, probably the best Chief of Imperial General Staff Britain ever knew. As chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, Brooke was the foremost military advisor to Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, and had the role of co-ordinator of the British mili… . As the British military’s Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), he was the professional head of the British Army and the principal military adviser to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Lord Alanbrooke was Churchill's right-hand man during World War II, and as Chief of the Imperial General Staff he had an integral part in shaping the strategy of Britain and the Allies. Churchill stood out as the inspiring leader of a more active policy. Join to automatically receive a subscription to BOTH. However, he received me as soon as he came out, looking like a Ruman Centurion with nothing on except a large bath-towel draped round him. Alanbrooke felt that this admittedly great man had no strategy; as late as December 1941, when Alanbrooke became C.I.G.S., he remained “appalled” by the “lack of a definite policy….Planned strategy was not Winston’s strong card. The few hairs were then brushed and finally sprayed direct. Questions such as these were apt to irritate Churchill's 'impetuous nature.' The turns definitely contributed to his popularity, and through his popularity to his influence. The only right course to pursue at the time was to build up our grow- ing strength and avoid any premature adven- tures. Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001, £25), pp. Italian army coming over to us, and the way through Italy being left open, the picture looked very different even to the American staffs. Lord Alanbrooke was Churchill's right-hand man during World War II, and as Chief of the Imperial General Staff he had an integral part in shaping the strategy of Britain and the Allies. Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke : biography 23 July 1883 – 17 June 1963 A year later, the war had taken a different turn and Brooke no longer believed it necessary to stay at Churchill’s side. Was it Churchill's and Roosevelt's insistence upon unconditional surrender, and their opposition to Eisenhower's proposal of an easy and honourable way out for the Italians, 'a white alley' in his own words, for helping their speedy withdrawal? As chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, Brooke was the foremost military advisor to Prime Minister … He was Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), the professional head of the British Army, during the Second World War, and was promoted to field marshal in 1944. These diaries are an important possession and enlightening to read. Thanks to these little volumes, we can follow in the most intimate way the hopes and fears of the man who saved the remnants of the British Army in 1940, who was mainly responsible for the higher strategy of the war in 1941 and 1942, and who was three times offered by the Prime Minister the highest com- mands in the field, including the command of Overlord, the culminating invasion of France. Quickly he was reduced to living in a cottage beside what had been his home. Two facts stood out in hard relief. Alanbrooke, by David Fraser. The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London, SW1H 9HP, All articles and content Copyright © 2013 The Spectator (1828) Ltd | All rights reserved. They write a paragraph,21 shaping insinuation until it begins to look like an argument, and then spring their odd conclusion. 2. 2020. By LORD TEMPLEWOOD C IR ARTHUR BRYANT is a past master at dealing °with famous diaries. His whinings do not make him a child, any more than his ejaculation about Churchill being childish make the Prime Minister less of a man. In the inevitable confusion of the forced march to the coast, he found him not only confident, but optimistic, and driving a herd of horned cattle before his retreating units in order to make sure that he could feed his men. Most of the Asian side of the war gets short shrift. Alanbrooke’s six years at the apex of the British military, at a time when the nation faced its greatest crisis of modern history, tells a story of the inherent value of deep professional competence, a willingness to register dissent, and a commitment to an ideal greater than any single organization or individual. Or the persistent belief in the American naval staff that only the Pacific really mattered? The title of Field Marshal was earned in January 1944. Churchill’s “black dog” of depression was a pup compared to Alanbrooke’s. When Churchill was Chancellor of the Exchequer, he came to know Grigg, a proficient civil servant, and may have made him Secretary of State for War to handle the finances of that department while the P.M./Defence Minister managed the larger matters. For from then onwards, one of. 36 Moran Diaries, 758-59. Disagreements on strategy were but one part of the stiff-lipped Alanbrooke’s heavy censure. His story is all the more striking as it runs on continuously without long documents to hold it up, or any attempts at self-defence to give it the impression of partiality. George Marshall may be America’s senior military man, but in these pages it is “almost impossible to make him grasp the true concepts of a strategic situation.” Instead he will “hedge and defer decisions until such time as he had to consult his assistants. 12, 15, 30, 35, 145-46, 685. Before, however, I finish my account of the book, 1 must add some ,account of the personal relations that existed between the Prime Minister and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff. This is somewhat predictable for a military purist; it is also good doctrine according to SunTzu (The Art of War). By the time I . Both emphasized Mediterranean operations, where British and Allied troops retook North Africa, Sicily, and southern Italy. Alan Brooke was born in 1883 at Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Hautes-Pyrénées, to a prominent Anglo-Irish family from West Ulster with a long military tradition. Despite this crucial role, he is very little known compared to military commanders such as Montgomery, Alexander, Slim, Mountbatten, Patton, or Eisenhower. Lord Alanbrooke was Churchill’s right-hand man during World War II, and as Chief of the Imperial General Staff he had an integral part in shaping the strategy of Britain and the Allies. Despite this crucial role, he is very little known compared to military commanders such as Montgomery, Alexander, Slim, Mountbatten, Patton, or Eisenhower. 1 felt that we must stick to my original policy for the conduct of the war, from which I had never departed, namely, to begin with the conquest of North Africa, so as to re-open the Mediterranean, restore a million tons of shipping by avoiding the Cape route; then eliminate Italy, bring in Turkey, threaten southern Europe, and then liberate France. The memoirs of the army Chief of Staff, Lord Alanbrooke, are only the most choleric of many accounts of the rows that punctuated the army's relations with its ultimate master. . Mark Jacobsen, Larry P. Arnn, and Patrick Garrity for their improvements to this essay. Buy Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West 1st by Roberts, Andrew (ISBN: 9780713999693) from Amazon's Book Store. An example of the latter is the editors conclusion that Alanbrooke wished Churchill dead. Lord Alanbrooke was Churchill’s right-hand man during World War II, and as Chief of the Imperial General Staff he had an integral part in shaping the strategy of Britain and the Allies. Encounters with birds often merited a sentence from this serious ornithologist and hunter. My forecast was justified. But the editors also commit some blunders. More than once I had been brought to London to give my views as to what was likely to happen in Spain if the Allies landed on the African coast. In the course of their long companionship Alanbrook came to understand the strength and weakness of his chief's character as no one else could. 'As I had to share every one of these meals with him,' adds the CIGS, 'and as they were all washed down with champagne and brandy, it became a little trying to the constitution.'. 12. The campaign was allowed to con- tinue, and every German division that Hitler threw into Italy meant one fewer in the final act of German resistance in the west. There is nothing in the Diaries except a late, vague reference at p. 703. Intelligence reports differed as to whether Axis armor was transiting the Dresden area, before or after its leveling. Churchill's abounding versatility needed Alanbrooke's constant scrutiny as a check. . They sold well, and added to his fame. 207, 590. Each deserves his statue. P.M. is . The Prime Minister's unconventional habits often had a humorous side. (Collins, 30s.) Alanbrooke, left to himself, would have kept to the early hours and conven- tional fare of a family home. Despite this crucial role, he is very little known compared to military commanders such as Montgomery, Alexander, Slim, Mountbatten, Patton, or Eisenhower. This was so infuriating that 1 was repeatedly on the verge of losing my temper. Statement in Response to Article by Andrew Roberts in the Policy Exchange. “The distinction between politics and strategy diminishes as the point of view is raised,” Churchill wrote. The memoirs of the army Chief of Staff, Lord Alanbrooke, are only the most choleric of many accounts of the rows that punctuated the army's relations with its ultimate master. Unlike the majority of military experts, including Churchill, * THE TURN OF THE TIDE, 1939-43. It was in this respect that he had so marked an advantage over his pre- decessor, Neville Chamberlain. Poland’s agony is reflected, though narrowly, in frequent short notes about military-to-military dealings with such Poles as Lt. General “Wladyslaw Anders. A new biography of Lord Alanbrooke, following his life from childhood through to his role as Chief Imperial General Staff, shaping Allied strategy in World War II. An overworked CIGS, thrilled by the prospect of several days of quiet fishing, is thunderstruck to see the Prime Minister and a colonel amble out of the woods. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Some say Churchill’s celebrated war memoirs did not adequately praise Alanbrooke. Salonika had been an impasse, Torch, as the North African campaign was called, was on the other hand to be the beginning of the road that led directly to the Western Front. One of the things the diaries show, in original form and when their author added to them after the war, is how often he checked his own worst passions, and implored the reader to pardon his harshness about Churchill. meeting to decide our plan of action for the Combined C.O.S. Readers might expect any edition of a historical figure’s private diaries to be a little too generous to their subject. For although the Prime Minister was 'sticking his fingers into every pie' and running after different 'hares behind everyone's back,' Alan- brooke knew that he was dealing with one of the world's great men. There are only three days when he mentions the strategic concept, which envisioned landing near Trieste and marching northwest into Slovenia, skirting the highest Alps, entering the Danube Valley, and reaching Vienna. If that was the intended approach, it fails. Alanbrooke further disapproves of the Canadian’s love of strong whisky. But then at the end of the note there is a very revealing sentence : He is quite the most difficult man to work with that I have ever struck, but I would not have missed the chance of working with him for any- thing on earth. The point is a sensitive one given that, already in 1944, the Prime Minster had hurt him by withdrawing earlier assurances that Alanbrooke would command “Overlord.” When war ended (under Attlee’s Labour government) he was given a very small monetary reward; later, per custom, he retired at half a field marshal’s salary. Finally trousers, waistcoat and coat, and meanwhile he rippled on the whole time about Monty's battle and our proposed visit to North Africa. The difference between the significant Field Marshal and the introspective diary writer is due in part to the “vent” the diaries provided, and in equal to the “friction of war.” And Alanbrooke’s private whinings involved many impressive figures besides Churchill. It is inconceivable diat so slender a line could allow Alanbrooke’s new editors to write, as a general proposition, that by 1943 “the diarist had wished him dead.” But that is what the editors tell us.22, Is their grave statement hanging on that one fishing line? 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