Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945 - William Slim
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 Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945 - William Slim
 Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945 - William Slim ... Grant as one of the few honest testaments [of war].--The Readers Companion to Military HistoryNewest Review: ... dominance in the air the Japanese forces generally run riot and Slim, his often changing headquarters bombed on a regular ... more ... basis, recounts the string of disasters as the remants of his new corps are painstakingly extracted.
Slim is eventually appointed commander in chief Fourteenth Army. The army becomes known as the 'Forgotten' army because of the lack of credit, press or interest they recieve for their exploits during the war. In the remote jungles and mountains of Burma Slim must turn defeat into victory and stop the Japanese invasion of India.
'We flew over the Arakan Youmas, the jungle-clad hills of Burma. Flying over them you ca...more |
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Defeat into Victory: Battling Japan in Burmaand India, 1942-1945
Pages: 616, Paperback, Cooper Square Press Last Update 08.12.2009 06:07
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Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945 - William Slim: Forgotten (1290 words)
by - written on 03/02/08 (Very useful, 329 readings)
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Defeat Into Victory is Field Marshal William Slim's account of the war in WW2 Burma. Slim commanded the Fourteenth Army in the campaign and is regarded by many to be the greatest British general of WW2. In contrast to many WW2 memoirs, Slim's account was modest and refrained from criticisms of other personalities. The book is also very well written. At the start of the book Slim is a Major-General commanding a division in the Iraq desert. 'We had scrambled through the skirmishes of the Iraq rebellion, been blooded, but not too deeply, agaisnt the French in Syria, and enjoyed unrestrainedly, the opera bouff of the invasion of Persia. We had bought ... Read the complete review
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