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Alan Victor Harold Brooke, 3rd Viscount Alanbrooke (24 November 1932 – 10 January 2018) [1] was a British peer. Known to his family and friends as Victor Brooke or Victor Alanbrooke, he was the son of Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke and his second wife Benita. Brooke was educated at Harrow and Bristol University, earning a ...
War Diaries 1939 1945. For most of the Second World War, General Sir Alan Brooke (1883–1963), later Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, was Britain's Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) and Winston Churchill's principal military adviser, and antagonist, in the inner councils of war. He is commonly considered the greatest CIGS in the history ...
8. Mai 2023 · The government promoted Alan Brooke to field marshal in 1944 and in recognition of his distinguished war service; they created him a baron in 1945 and a viscount the following year. A year after World War II, in 1946, Alan Brooke resigned as chief of staff and retired from the military soon after. He died in retirement at his Hampshire estate in 1963.
For anyone wanting an insight into the inner workings of the British political and military war effort in the Second World War, Dr Andrew Sangster’s re-appraisal of Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke in his new book Alan Brooke : Churchill’s Right-Hand Critic is highly commended. It is a first-class analysis of the character of the man who played an understated, yet key ...
Viscount Alanbrooke was a career soldier who came from a renowned military family. He was regarded as one of the best strategists and military thinkers of his generation and rose to become Chief ...
Thomas Brooke, 2nd Viscount Alanbrooke (9 January 1920 – 19 December 1972) was a British peer. He was the son of Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke . From an Ulster Anglo-Irish aristocratic family, Brooke received his education at Wellington College in Berkshire and fought in the Second World War in the Royal Artillery .
In 1946, he was made Viscount Alanbrooke. He later served as Chancellor of the Queen's University of Belfast until his death in 1963. He now rests in his home village of Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, where the last heir to the Alanbrooke viscountcy still lives. ww2dbase His memoirs were published in 2001. It stirred controversy for his criticism ...
