Key Information
Reference code
ALANBROOKE 8/5/1-2
Title
Requests received, 1946-1947, for information about operations in 1940 and High Command in 1944-1945
Date(s)
- 1946-1947 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Letters to Brooke from historians and writers, notably from Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, 9 Sep 1946, asking for details of action fought near Ypres-Menin road during retreat to Dunkirk, May 1940, with typescript account by Brooke, [1940], of operations of 2 Corps during retreat from Louvain to Dunkirk, May 1940; from Dr Forrest Carlisle Pogue, 28 Jan 1947, concerning organisation, administration and operations of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, 1944-1945.