Alanbrooke and why right beats wrong, in the end
The attitude of the soldier who with Churchill won Britain's end of the Second World is a template for national endeavour when the prospects appear bleak.
On the morning of 28 September 1939, General Sir Alan Brooke set off for France to take part in the disastrous opening phases of the war, a war which in the end Brooke did more to win than anyone on the British side other than Winston Churchill. In the first entry in his diaries - addressed to his wife Benita and published to the consternation of Churchill after the Second World War - he recounted the seeming absurdity of the looming conflict.