Gary Boland

“Winston did not like the plan for the capture of Burma, and produced one of his priceless sentences by saying, ‘You might as well eat a porcupine one quill at a time’!”
― Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Alanbrooke War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke

“The trouble is that the American mind likes proceeding from the general to the particular, whilst in the problem we have to solve we cannot evolve any form of general doctrine until we have carefully examined the particular details of each problem. The background really arises out of King’s desire to find every loophole he possibly can to divert troops to the Pacific!”
― Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Alanbrooke War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke

“We have now at last received their paper and are to discuss it tomorrow. I shudder at the results.”
― Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Alanbrooke War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke

“I find it very hard even now not to look on your North African strategy with a jaundiced eye!!’ I replied, ‘What strategy would you have preferred?’ To which he answered, ‘Cross Channel operations for the liberation of France and advance on Germany, we should finish the war quicker.’ I remember replying, ‘Yes, probably, but not the way we hope to finish it!”
― Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Alanbrooke War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke