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All tea, wedging war on, bad brooms.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War II podcast, I'm Angus Wallace.

Alan Brooke would take over as British Chief of the Imperial General Staff in December

1941.

For the rest of the war, Brooke would organise and coordinate the British military effort

and in such a role act as the Winston Churchill's senior military adviser.

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