Item ALANBROOKE 12/3 - Correspondence, chiefly 1956, relating to the writing and production of The turn of the Tide

Correspondence relating to Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant's The turn of the tide (Collins, London, 1957), including letter to Brooke from Bryant, 28 Jan 1956, enclosing typescript copies of letters from Brooke to FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 1942-1946, mainly letters of congratulation and appreciation; letters to Brooke from Bryant, Jan-Dec 1956, describing his progress with The turn of the tide; letters to Brooke from Marian C Long, research assistant to Royal Regiment of Artillery and Bryant, and Maj Gen Richard Wakefield Goodbody, Director of Royal Artillery, Jan-Dec 1956, concerning financing of Long's research work and custody and future use of Brooke's papers and Long's notes; typescript copies of letters to Bryant from Rt Hon Sir (Percy) James Grigg and Sir Norman Brook, Sep 1956, commenting on draft of The turn of the tide; letters to Brooke from Bryant, Nov 1956, enclosing Supplement to The London Gazette, 10 Oct 1941, and copies of letters to Bryant from Gen Sir Harold Edmund Franklyn, Robert Clive Bridgeman, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman of Leigh, AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Oct-Nov 1956, commenting on extracts from proofs of chapters 2 and 6; letters to Brooke from Collins publishers, Aug-Nov 1956, concerning design of publicity brochure and dust jacket; drafts of Bryant's acknowledgements and Brooke's foreword, Dec 1956. With letters to Brooke from Mark Bonham Carter, Collins publishers, Feb 1956, concerning manuscript about work of Special Operations Executive (SOE) in France, 1943.