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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Typed letter signed ("W."), to William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964), Chartwell, Kent, 19 April 1958. 1 page, 4to, Chartwell stationery .
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Typed letter signed ("W."), to William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964), Chartwell, Kent, 19 April 1958. 1 page, 4to, Chartwell stationery . HELPING TO REBUT ALANBROOKE'S CRITICAL PORTRAIT "Brendan told me of the points you wish to make about Alanbrooke," Churchill begins, referring to Brendan Bracken (1901-1958), the publisher, and key wartime aide to Churchill. "I now enclose some notes [not present] prepared by Kelly on the six points you raise. I hope that they will be of assistance to you." Denis Kelly was another of Churchill's editors and ghost writers, who assisted him on The Second World War and other postwar books and essays. Turning to his health, Churchill says, "I have had a further setback, but am now recovering. I hope the sun shines on you at La Capponcina." Alan Brooke delivered one of the most serious dents to Churchill's reputation when he cooperated with Arthur Bryant's two-volume study of the war, Turn of the Tide (1956) and Triumph of the West (1959). Relying heavily on Brooke's wartime diaries, Bryant painted am unflattering picture of Churchill the midnight monologist, who constantly spun fantastic but impractical military schemes that his professional military advisors had to quash. In Bryant's version, it was Brooke who saved the day at Dunkirk and managed the British to victory.