Britain's poor war performance

31st March 1942: Britain's top General and principal military adviser to Churchill has a moment of doubt

The Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Sir Alan Brooke at his desk at the War Office in London, 1942.

The Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Sir Alan Brooke kept a private diary¹ throughout the war. He was later to describe it as an outlet for his innermost thoughts, often frustrations at being placed at the point where politics met mi…