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Author | : Ronald Lewin |
Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781840222142 |
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Field Marshal the Viscount Slim was blessed with none of the advantages of wealth and social position that eased the progress of many army officers. With only his integrity, personality and intellect he rose to the pinnacle of his career.
Author | : Richard A. Baylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Command of troops |
ISBN | : |
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Field Marshal William J. Slim is known by many as one of the most persevering, triumphant, and yet caring leaders of this century. His accomplishments, particularly those in the Burma campaign during World War II, received much well deserved commendation. Undoubtedly, some of the more interesting aspects in the Burma campaign and other periods in Field Marshal Slim's lifetime were his unwavering ethical standards and personal moral strengths during the most desperate and brutal times. This paper looks closely at Field Marshal Slim's ethical development and leadership during his younger years, his senior leader years, and his later years. The examination shows the value of maintaining high ethical and moral standards, and how high standards can build a courageous organizational bond between soldiers that can prevail in the face of insurmountable odds in war and peace.
Author | : William Slim |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780330509978 |
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These memoirs rank with those of Ulysses S. Grant as one of the few honest testaments [of war].--The Readers Companion to Military History
Author | : Mary L. Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Marshals |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : LTC Edward P. Egan |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2015-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786253550 |
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Field Marshal William J. Slim is considered by many historians to be one of the finest generals of World War II. His accomplishments were truly extraordinary. He commanded a polyglot army, consisting of six different nationalities speaking eight different languages, that fought in some of the most inhospitable, disease-ridden country in the world against the war’s toughest opponent, the Japanese. In March 1942, he assumed command of a British-Indian force in Burma half way through the longest retreat in the British Army’s history. Even though he was unable to reverse the disaster, he kept his force intact and led it to safety. Over the next three and one half years, despite very limited resources and several inept senior commanders, he rebuilt his force into an army that was able to inflict on the Japanese their greatest land defeat of World War II. In the process, he conducted four of the most classic operational campaigns of the war—the battle of the Second Arakan; the battles of Kohima and Imphal; the capture of Mandalay and Meiktila; and the pursuit to Rangoon. Throughout his career, but especially during World War II, Slim met all the criteria for a great general and strategic leader as set forth in Lord Wavell’s Generals and Generalship. Despite these great accomplishments, Slim ran into several “glass ceilings” during World War II. Twice he was relieved of command, once immediately after his greatest battlefield victory. This study examines Field Marshal Slim’s leadership. It takes a brief look at his biography, then compares him against Wavell’s standards for generalship by highlighting events from his career that illustrate each standard. Finally, it addresses the issue of the “glass ceiling”—what it is, the events surrounding Slim’s encounters with it, and how Slim was able to overcome it. The intent is to show that Slim was not only a great World War II general, but is still a model of leadership worthy of study by the U.S. Army.
Author | : William Slim |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2008-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783830425 |
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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 Northwest Frontier. In 1920, Slim took part in a retaliatory raid on an obscure village. It was an unusually easy victory over the canny Wazirs, whom the British took by surprise and escaped from with scant loss. Afterwards, in the casual frontier way, the British sent a message to the Wazirs, expressing surprise at the enemy’s unusually poor shooting. The Wazirs replied in courtly fashion that their rifles were Short Magazine Lee-Enfields captured in previous fights with the British, and that they had failed to sight the guns to accord with a new stock of ammunition. Now, having calculated the adjustment, they would be delighted to demonstrate their bull’s-eye accuracy any time the British wanted. “One cannot help feeling,” Slim says, “that the fellows who wrote that ought to be on our side.” Slim genuinely enjoyed his virtually blood-free skirmishes with such foes as the Turks, the Wazirs and the Italians in 1940 Ethiopia. “An attempt to depict the lives of ordinary men in and out of combat. The accounts are written with style, wit and exceptional humanity.”—Tom Hall
Author | : Ronald Lewin |
Publisher | : Pan |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Soldiers |
ISBN | : 9780330254793 |
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Author | : Richard A. Baylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Command of troops |
ISBN | : |
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Field Marshal William J. Slim is known by many as one of the most persevering, triumphant, and yet caring leaders of this century. His accomplishments, particularly those in the Burma campaign during World War II, received much well deserved commendation. Undoubtedly, some of the more interesting aspects in the Burma campaign and other periods in Field Marshal Slim's lifetime were his unwavering ethical standards and personal moral strengths during the most desperate and brutal times. This paper looks closely at Field Marshal Slim's ethical development and leadership during his younger years, his senior leader years, and his later years. The examination shows the value of maintaining high ethical and moral standards, and how high standards can build a courageous organizational bond between soldiers that can prevail in the face of insurmountable odds in war and peace.
Author | : William Slim Slim (1st viscount) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Joseph Slim Slim (Viscount) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Battles |
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A personal account of military field command during the Second World War as told by Sir William Slim, who led the British forces in Burma. In Mar. 1942 he took command of the Burma Corps and then led the British 14th Army, formed in 1943. They were British, Australians, Canadians, South Africans, Burmese, Chinese, and African soldiers, but mainly drawn from the volunteer Indian Army. For three years Slim's soldiers tied down tens of thousands of Japanese troops in Burma which keep them from fighting in the Pacific. Slim relates the long retreat through Burma and the final hard-fought victory over the Japanese forces, capturing the harsh realities of war. This narrative was first published during his appointment as the 13th Governor General of Australia, granted by the, then new, Queen Elizabeth II, in May, 1953.