Sir Alan Brooke

• Highly competent organiser and thorough professional
• Different from Churchill?

  Conscious of need to deploy British forces and avoid heavy casualties
• Annoyed by Churchill coming up with military ideas
• Personal dealings with Churchill tended to be tricky
• Supported Churchill's decision to send troops and equipment to North Africa
• Strength?

  Distinguished himself in staff duties

  Was in charge of military training at War Office

  Was responsible for covering the evacuation of British Expeditionary Force
• Weakness?

  After the war , there were extracts published from Alan Brooke's diaries - provoked controversy