 | Stephen Badsey - 2000 - 292 pages
...June 1944 - D-Day, main Allied landings take place in Normandy 8 June 1944- Montgomery comes ashore "/ am very uneasy about the whole operation. At the best,...may well be the most ghastly disaster of the whole war" FIELD MARSHAL SIR ALAN BROOKE, CHIEF OF THE IMPERJAL GENERAL STAFF, 5 JUNE 1944 IN THE MILITARY... | |
 | Carlo D'Este - 2003 - 884 pages
...thousand men may have been killed?"47 Brooke's own sense of gloom on the eve of D-Day was reflected in his diary: "I am very uneasy about the whole operation....may well be the most ghastly disaster of the whole war. I wish to God it were safely over."48 Only Montgomery, Ramsay, and Franklin Roosevelt displayed... | |
 | Alex Kershaw - 2003 - 336 pages
...diary that he was "very uneasy about the whole operation. At the best it will fall so very very far short of the expectation of the bulk of the people,...may well be the most ghastly disaster of the whole war!"45 Brooke was almost right. It was essential that the 29th Division and other invading Allied... | |
 | Flint Whitlock - 2004 - 412 pages
...Staff, confided to a colleague, "I am very uneasy about the whole operation. At the best, [the invasion] will fall so very short of the expectation of the...the people, namely all those who know nothing about the difficulties. At the worst, it may well be the most ghastly slaughter of the whole war."24 Misgivings... | |
 | Stephen Ashley Hart - 2007 - 260 pages
...German 1944 Vweapon onslaught with the same stoic resilience as they had the German Blitz of 1940.13 The campaign's literature also has underestimated...may well be the most ghastly disaster of the whole war."13 Recognition that simple weight of materiel was insufficient to convince senior Allied commanders... | |
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At the best it will fall so very far short of the expectation of the bulk of the people, namely all those who know nothing about its difficulties. At the worst it may well be the most ghastly disaster of the whole war. 