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Alanbrooke’s War Diaries edited by Arthur Bryant

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I never really had a deep interest in WWII, my knowledge was sketchy and based on WWII films.  Of course, I had imbibed that Hitler was the devil incarnate and Churchill was a national hero.  [more…]

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