In David Fraser's biography of Field Marshal Alanbrooke he writes [p.337 of paperback edition] that: "The Allies made good their landings at Salerno in mid-September. Brooke suffered the usual anxieties of a distant spectator. In retrospect he believed that the landings so far north had been too great a gamble, in view of the relative anticipated rates of build-up of forces in and against the beachhead, although he supported the gamble at the time. On 18th September, however, he wrote: ‘The Salerno landing now seems safe.’ Brooke’s caution – ‘I still do not think that we were right in taking such risks at that juncture of the campaign’ – was typical." The quote 'The Salerno landing now seems safe' is in the diaries edited by Danchev and Todman, but I can't find the other quote [in bold] in there and Fraser doesn't give a source for it. Does anyone have any ideas? A letter? Regards Tom
