Defeat Into Victory
Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945

This book is too good to review well in the space of an essay or a paragraph. Properly appreciating and analyzing it would require a several weeks of classroom discussion. I have a great inhibition against marking or defacing books in any fashion, but with this book I have a great desire to take a h......more

Bill Slim, or – to give him his proper title – Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC, KStJ, has been described by some as perhaps the greatest commander of the twentieth century. Defeat into Victory is his account of the retaking of Burma by Allied f......more

Bar none--The best book on military leadership ever written.......more

Field Marshal Viscount Slim was driven out of Burma with his British forces when the Japanese invaded at the start of 1942. The trek from Burma to India was a constant battle and one of the lesser-known but more nightmarish retreats of World War II. In India, Slim restored his forces, bringing them......more

A friend sent me a copy of Field Marshal Bill Slim’s Defeat Into Victory. It has always been on my list of books I’d like to read, but somehow I’d never quite got round to acquiring a copy. The version I have is a reading copy of the original edition, with fold out maps all through it. The reading st......more