Hi all, I'd like a discussion on the failure to re-employ generals Alan Cunningham and Reede Godwin-Austen to front line commands after the...
Recently I wrote a blog post about the plan to retake Alderney in 1942. Thought it may be of interest....
In David Fraser's biography of Field Marshal Alanbrooke he writes [p.337 of paperback edition] that: "The Allies made good their landings at...
The Second World War saw probably the largest military manoeuvres ever to take place on British soil. Inter-army exercise BUMPER, held in the...
Just been looking at pics of James Mason & Rommel, not a bad lookalike, which got me wondering who looked most like the real person they were...
​From The Age, Monday, October 6, 1941 IN NORTHERN IRELAND What Ulster Is Doing From Our Own Correspondent Northern Ireland, or Ulster as it...
Greetings to everyone here. I've been lurking around, surreptitiously reading everyone's posts for several months now and have finally taken the...
Hello everyone Does anybody have a copy of the Personal Diaries of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten 1943-46. This was during his time in CBI....
I would be most grateful if anyone can share an extract of Lord Alanbrooke's war diary for 19th December 1940. On this day he visited the 2nd Bn,...
Hello. Since this forum is more about British Commonwealth side of war I would like to meantion about Bernard Montgomery and controversy...
Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke Memorial London SW1
Picture of a British Lieut General(?), taken at St James footbal ground, Newcastle.
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