Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1944 Jun 1-1944 Nov 9 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 vol
Scope and content
Brooke's personal diary as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Jun-Nov 1944, notably covering operations in North West Europe, Jun-Nov 1944, including Normandy landings, Jun 1944, and in Italy, Jun-Nov 1944; plans for landings in southern France and for recapture of Burma; OCTAGON Conference, Quebec, Sep 1944; visit by Brooke and Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, to Moscow, Oct 1944. Contains Chiefs of Staff, War Cabinet and Defence Committee meetings; official meetings and informal conversations with Allied army commanders and members of UK, US and Russian High Commands, notably Churchill, FM Bernard Law Montgomery, Commander, 21 Army Group, FM Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre, Gen Dwight David Eisenhower, Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditonary Force in Western Europe, Gen George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff of US Army, and Stalin, Soviet Prime Minister. Also includes entries on organisation of defence measures against German flying bombs.