The Turn of the Tide is build around the personal diaries of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, who was Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Churchill's closest military advisor. The author, Sir Arthur Bryant, terms Lord Alanbrooke's diaries "the most important of all contemporary personal records of the war". Extensive excerpts from the diaries are woven into the text together with comments on …
Tells what was required of the British ships in various phases of the war, how they met them and the costs involved
As John Winton, the best and most authoritative writer on current naval matters, says in the foreword to this book, 'The Navy has never been known for its flair for publicity... Again and again during the Falklands War it seems to me that the chances of giving the Navy a 'chuck-up' were being fumbled... so when the ships began to come home I let it be known that I was going to compile a book on…