Field Marshal William Slim

About

Commanded the Fourteenth Army from the retreat out of Burma to the reconquest, then served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Governor-General of Australia. Defeat into Victory is widely regarded as the finest commander's memoir of the war.

Books in Database (1)

Defeat Into Victory 1956 · 576 pages

The commander of the Fourteenth Army tells how a beaten force was rebuilt to destroy the Japanese in Burma.

Memoir

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