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“william slim”

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  • Defeat Into Victory

    by Viscount Field Marshal William Slim ...
    Field Marshal William Slim stands alongside Montgomery as the outstanding British field commander of World War II. Defeat Into Victory is his classic account of the Burma campaign: a story of retreat, attrition and final hard-fought victory over the Japanese. Told by a commander always at the centre of events, this is a narrative which captures both the high drama and the harsh reality of war. ... Read more

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  • Unofficial History

    Field-Marshal Sir Williams Slim

    by William Slim ...
    A career soldier, veteran of both World Wars, and British war hero remembers the campaigns he fought—and his worthy foes.Like most members of the professional military freemasonry, Field Marshal Sir William Slim came to admire "all the soldiers of different races who have fought with me and most of those who have fought against me." Among the most likable of his enemies were the Wazirs of India's ... Read more

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  • Defeat Into Victory

    Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945

    by Field-Marshal Viscount William Slim ...
    Field Marshal Viscount Slim (1891-1970) led shattered British forces from Burma to India in one of the lesser-known but more nightmarish retreats of World War II. He then restored his army's fighting capabilities and morale with virtually no support from home and counterattacked. His army's slaughter of Japanese troops ultimately liberated India and Burma.The first edition of Defeat Into Victory ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Unofficial History

    by Field-Marshal Sir William Slim ...
    Like most members of the professional military freemasonry, Field Marshal Sir William Slim came to admire "all the soldiers of different races who have fought with me and most of those who have fought against me." Among the most likable of his enemies were the Wazirs of India's Northwest Frontier. In 1920, Slim took part in a retaliatory raid on an obscure village. It was an unusually easy victory ... Read more

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  • Battle Tales from Burma

    by John Randle ...
    A collection of autobiographical stories from an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.John Randle served with the greatly respected Baluch Regiment of the former Indian Army right through the fiercely fought Burma Campaign, winning a Military Cross, yet on VJ Day he was only some sixty miles from where had started out nearly four years before.Unlike other conventional war memoirs ... Read more

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  • The Mammoth Book of How it Happened: World War I

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
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  • Backs to the Wall

    A larrikin on the Western Front

    by GD Mitchell, Robert Macklin ...
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    by John Buchan ...
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  • On the Front Line

    True World War I Stories

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  • Train to Nowhere

    One Woman's World War II, Ambulance Driver, Reporter, Liberator

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