Key Information
Reference code
ALANBROOKE 8/5/3-9
Title
Requests received, 1955-1959, for information about Allied High Command, 1941-1945
Date(s)
- 1955-1959 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Letters to Brooke from historians and writers, notably from from Ian Playfair, Cabinet Office Historical Section, 22 Oct 1957, and from John Connell (pseudonym for John Henry Robertson), Jul 1959, concerning Lt Gen Bernard Law Montgomery's appointment to 8 Army, Aug 1942; from Capt Stephen Wentworth Roskill, RN, Cabinet Office Official Naval Historian, and AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Mar 1959, concerning Mountbatten's appointment as Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, 1943; from Riley Sunderland, 30 Nov 1959, concerning US Gen George Catlett Marshall's attitude toward China during World War Two, 1941-1945.