Bill Slim
Subtitle: leadership, strategy, conflict
By: Robert Lyman ; illustrated by Peter Dennis
Contributors: Dennis, Peter, 1950-
Series: Command -- 17; Command (Oxford, England) -- 17.
Publisher: Osprey
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781849085281
Subjects: Generals; Campaigns; Great Britain; Great Britain. Army; Military leadership; World War, 1939-1945; Biography
Description: "Bill Slim was one of the greatest British generals of World War II.  In a career that stretched from 1914 until 1958, Bill Slim's most impressive triumphs came in India and Burma in the long war against the Japanese.  He employed in his military strategy the principles of flexibility and surprise that foreshadowed modern British military doctrine."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-63) and index.