Todman Daniel Ed (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st ed. 763p. Photos. Wraps. Heavy. Slight smokey smell. Fine Copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Goo. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Fifth Impression. Copy in green cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Upper board cover has very small nick at base. Jacket slightly creased along spine and edges. Diary extracts as front and rear end papers. Occasional light foxing to folio edges. Free of inscriptions. Clean text with b/w plates. This is a heavy book and may require additional postage.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. 1st ed. First Edition. 763p. Photos. Heavy. Owner's emboss. Fine/Fine Copy. Book.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

hardback with dustjacket. third impression. Alanbrooke was CIGS - Chief of the Imperial General Staff - for the greater part of the Second World War. He acted as mentor to Montgomery and military adviser to Churchill, with whom he clashed. As chairman of the Chiefs of Staff committee he also led for the British side in the bargaining and the brokering of the Grand Alliance, notably during the great conferences with Roosevelt and Stalin and their retinue at Casablanca, Teheran, Malta and elsewhere. As CIGS Alanbrooke was indispensable to the British and the Allied war effort. The diaries were sanitised by Arthur Bryant for his two books he wrote with Alanbrooke. Unexpurgated, says Danchev, they are explosive. The American generals, in particular, come in for attack. Danchev proposes to centre his edition on the Second World War. Pre and post-war entries are to be reduced to a Prologue and Epilogue). John Keegan says they are the military equivalent of the Colville Diaries (Churchill's private secretary), THE FRINGES OF POWER. These sold 24,000 in hardback at Hodder in 1985 2001. First edition. A near fine copy only marked by very light marking on the edges. The d/w is unclipped and also near fine with only a faint hint of sun fading of the spine. Now in a protective cover. Scans available if required.

Edited by Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2001. LI+763 pages. Orig. cloth binding in dust wrappers. Fine / Near fine.