Defeat into Victory

First published in 1956, this is William Slim's first-person account of the Burma campaign of the Second World War. Slim describes the 1942 retreat from Burma into India, the rebuilding of a beaten army, the Arakan fighting, the defence of Imphal and Kohima, and the later crossing of the Irrawaddy and the drive on Rangoon. He writes as a corps and then army commander: supply, monsoon, jungle disease, air transport, and the training of Indian, British, African, and Gurkha formations occupy as much space as set-piece battles. The book is an operational memoir of how the Fourteenth Army was made and then used.

Bound in blocked cloth. Frontispiece and 40 pages of black & white plates, 21 maps. Printed slipcase. 10"x6¾".