Slim: The Standardbearer (Wordsworth Military Library)

by RonaldLewin (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $3.36

  Field Marshall the Viscount Slim (1891-1970) was blessed with none of the advantages of wealth and social position that erased the progress of many army officers. With no armoury apart for his integrity, his personality and his intellect, he rose to the pinnacle of his profession as one of the finest fighting Generals of World War II on either side. Ronald Lewin's biography charts Bill Slim's life from humble beginnings through World War I, the inter-war years to his leadership of the 14th Army in Burma.

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  Paperback
  1990

  $13.45

  In writing this book the author had access to all Slim's private papers, to the recollections of his family and to a store of unpublished material from fellow officers and friends. He describes Slim's retreat from Burma, the destruction of the Japanese in 1944 and the drive back to Rangoon.