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Object description
259 ms and copies of ts letters between Bryant and Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke from March 1951 until September 1962 concerning the writing of Bryant's volumes based on Alanbrooke's Second World War diaries and notes THE TURN OF THE TIDE and TRIUMPH IN THE WEST, with a few, brief comments by Alanbrooke on the choice of Supreme Commander for Overlord and his attitude towards Churchill in 1944, the British Army's situation in France in 1940, the strategic objectives during the war against Germany and Japan, and his fellow high commanders Montgomery, Mountbatten and Dill; two ms letters from Alanbrooke to Bryant's wife, Anne; four ms letters from Alanbrooke's wife, Benita, to Anne Bryant; four ms and one ts letters and one ms postcard from Benita Alanbrooke to Bryant; seven ts letters from Bryant's Private Secretary to Alanbrooke; one other ts letter and one postcard and some miscellaneous correspondence and papers.
Content description
259 ms and copies of ts letters between Bryant and Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke from March 1951 until September 1962 concerning the writing of Bryant's volumes based on Alanbrooke's Second World War diaries and notes THE TURN OF THE TIDE and TRIUMPH IN THE WEST, with a few, brief comments by Alanbrooke on the choice of Supreme Commander for Overlord and his attitude towards Churchill in 1944, the British Army's situation in France in 1940, the strategic objectives during the war against Germany and Japan, and his fellow high commanders Montgomery, Mountbatten and Dill; two ms letters from Alanbrooke to Bryant's wife, Anne; four ms letters from Alanbrooke's wife, Benita, to Anne Bryant; four ms and one ts letters and one ms postcard from Benita Alanbrooke to Bryant; seven ts letters from Bryant's Private Secretary to Alanbrooke; one other ts letter and one postcard and some miscellaneous correspondence and papers.