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100 1 $aLyman, Robert.
245 10 $aSlim, master of war :$bBurma and the birth of modern warfare /$cRobert Lyman.
260 $aLondon :$bConstable,$c2004.
300 $axvii, 327 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 309-311) and index.
505 0 $aPoisoned chalice -- Through the shadows of darkness -- In the wilderness at Ranchi -- Architect of victory -- Army commander -- Operation U-Go -- The bloody plain -- The masterstroke.
520 1 $a"General W.J. Slim achieved something no one - from Churchill down the line of command - believed possible. At a time when British units in the Far East were defeated and demoralized and had virtually been ejected from Burma, he was appointed to lead what was soon to become the famous 'forgotten' 14th Army. Within six months he had dealt the first death blow to the Japanese Army. This - the battle of Kohima and Imphal - was the largest single defeat of the Japanese on land in the Second World War and led to their complete destruction in Burma - following Slim's decisive victories at Mandalay and Meiktila, and the dramatic capture of Rangoon - by August 1945. Slim achieved this with a fraction of the resources and support available to Montgomery in Europe, over almost impossible lines of communication that stretched up to 1,000 miles long. So, how long did he do it? And why is he not better known?" "Slim did not fit the British military mould. An intelligent, compassionate commander, Slim's unconventionality was his great strength. Like Patton he was a manoeuvrist: he fought differently, seeking victory by cunning and guile, mastering the complexities of battle through remarkable resourcefulness and ingenuity, starkly different from how the British Army fought its wars at the time but more like the style of the modern British Army. Like the legendary soldier T.E. Lawrence, Slim was an exponent - long before it became fashionable - of mission command, giving his subordinates their head and encouraging initiative and imagination at the lowest levels of command." "But above all Slim was a soldier's general - known affectionately among the ranks as Uncle Bill. Though averse to self-publicity or glorification, his men adored him in a way unimaginable for any other contemporary British commander (no doubt a large part of the reason for his military success in Burma). But it wasn't just his men who revered him, but his equals too: Mountbatten, with whom he bonded in a way unparalleled in South East Asia Command, and Stilwell, another maverick, who would serve under no other British commander but him. They were not wrong; he was a singular man, a supreme commander, who remains worthy of our respect today, not least because of his foreshadowing of a style of warfare so startling in its modernity. Few troops and even fewer resources, immense obstacles - geographical, topographical, climatic and political - and surrounded by clouds of doubting Thomases, Slim carefully organized, trained and then deployed his army to decisive effect, defeating the Japanese twice and liberating Burma in the process."--BOOK JACKET.
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