Derek Law's Bibliography

Category: The British Army

Name:	The British Army
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Documents: 10

2367	ALANBROOKE, Field Marshal Lord. War Diaries 1939-1945, edited by Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman. lii, 763p., illus., index. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN: 0297607316. The full unexpurgated diaries. These were published in edited form in the 1950's, edited by Arthur Bryant.	view
2368	BREDIN, A. E. C. Three Assault Landings: The Story of the 1st Bn. the Dorsetshire Regt., in Sicily, Italy and N.W. Europe. xvi, 172p., illus. Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1946. Originally part of the Malta garrison, they joined an assault brigade when North Africa had been cleared. Although a regimental history, their three assaults involved them heavily with the Navy.	view
2369	BRYANT, Arthur. The Turn of the Tide 1939–1943: A Study Based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal the Viscount Alanbrooke, KG, OM. 766p., illus., index. London: Collins; Garden City: Doubleday, 1957. Lord Alanbrooke began the war in command of II Corp of the BEF, became C-in-C Home Forces then CIGS. He became one of Churchill's closest advisors and this book is therefore concerned with the strategy and higher direction of the war.	view
2370	BRYANT, Arthur. Triumph in the West 1943–1946: Based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal the Viscount Alanbrooke, KG, OM. 576p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Collins; Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. The sequel to Turn of the Tide and again concerned with the higher strategy.	view
2371	COLVILLE, John R. Man of Valour: The Life of Field Marshal the Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, DSO, MVO, MC. 285p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Collins, 1972. ISBN: 0002112906. Gort led the BEF safely to Dunkirk and was later successively governor of Gibraltar then Malta. Background information.	view
2372	COOLEY, Reg. The Unknown Fleet: The Army's Civilian Seamen in War and Peace. xiv, 233p., bibliog., illus., index. Stroud: Sutton, 1993. ISBN: 0750903848. The RASC always had a fleet of small craft - numbering some 1,100 in 1945. They undertook all sorts of duties from stores carriers to target towing. Cooley opens up an unusual aspect of the war at sea.	view
2373	HABESCH, David. The Army's Navy: British Military Vessels and Their History Since Henry VIII. 240p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Chatham, 2001. ISBN: 1861761570. The War Department Fleet began the war with seventy vessels and 240 civilian crew. It numbered some 1600 vessels by war's end. The war years are well covered in this wide-ranging history which also covers the Inland Water Transport RE.	view
2374	POWNALL, Henry. Chief of Staff: The Diaries of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Pownall. 2 vols., index London: Cooper; Hamden: Archon, 1972–77. ISBN: 085052105X (Vol.1); 0850521629 (Vol.2). Memoirs of a distinguished general who held several major posts during the war, starting with the BEF in France and ending in the Far East with Mountbatten.	view
1040	SCARFE, Norman. Assault Division: A History of the 3rd Division from the Invasion of Normandy to the Surrender of Germany. 288p., illus. London: Collins, 1947. Not entirely relevant, but gives a good account of the preparations for D-Day and the exercises leading up to it. Reprinted by Spellmount in 2006 (ISBN: 1862273383).	view
5084	SANGSTER, Andrew. Alan Brooke: Churchill’s Right Hand Critic. A Reappraisal of Lord Alanbrooke. 368p., bibliog., illus., index. Oxford: Casemate, 2021. ISBN: 9781612009681. Although this offers a full biographical career of his childhood, service in WW1 and in the inter-war years, it focusses on his period as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during WW2.	view