In the Second World War. one of Churchill's closest working relationships - and perhaps the most significant - was with the senior commander Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff from December 1941.
It was a relationship which Brooke frequently found maddening, as he recalled in his diaries. But it was also productive.
Professor Richard Toye and Dr. Warren Dockter analyse a partnership which helped shape British and Allied military strategy. And which arguably showed Churchill - brilliant, energetic, impetuous and frustrating - at his most Churchillian.
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