Key Information
Reference code
ALANBROOKE 5/1/4
Title
Diary as C-in-C Home Forces, 1941
Date(s)
- 1941 Jan 1-1941 Oct 19 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 vol
Scope and content
Brooke's personal diary as Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces, Jan-Oct 1941, notably covering organisation of defence and training exercises and inspection of defences in Home Forces Command. Contains details of official meetings and informal conversations with members of Home Forces Command, Chiefs of Staff and members of High Command, notably Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, Sir John Greer Dill, Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Also includes entries on Brooke's concern at lack of cooperation between Army and Air Force; his feeling that German invasion is imminent; British production of tanks and anti-tank weapons; Churchill's support for plan to capture Trondheim, Norway.