Key Information
Reference code
ALANBROOKE 8/5/10-14
Title
Requests received, 1960-1962, for information about Allied High Command, World War Two
Date(s)
- 1960-1962 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Letters to Brooke from historians and writers, notably from John N Hart, Jan-Feb 1960, asking for information about US Gen Joseph Warren Stilwell's service in China, 1942-1944; letter from Charles Burton Burdick, Associate Professor of History at San Jose State College, California, 22 Aug 1960, requesting information about British High Command's attitudes to Malta, 1940-1941; typescript comments by Brooke on Grand strategy...June 1941-August 1942 by J M A Gwyer and Sir James Ramsay Montagu Butler (London, 1964), vol 3 of official history of World War Two, and related letters from Gwyer, Butler, and Michael Eliot Howard, 1961-1962.