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978-0-330-50997-8. Defeat into Victory is an account of the retaking of Burma by Allied forces during the Second World War by the British Field Marshal William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, and published in the UK by Cassell in 1956. It was published in the United States as Defeat into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942–1945 by David ...
Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC, PC (6 August 1891 – 14 December 1970), usually known as Bill Slim, [1] was a British military commander and the 13th Governor-General of Australia . Slim saw active service in both the First and Second World Wars and was wounded in action three times.
The Japanese defeat at Kohima and Imphal was the largest up until that time, [5] with many of the Japanese deaths resulting from starvation, disease and exhaustion suffered during their retreat. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] According to voting in a contest run by the British National Army Museum , the Battle of Imphal was bestowed as Britain's Greatest Battle ...
Slim, William (1956) Defeat into Victory. Citations from the Cassell 1956 edition, but also available from NY: Buccaneer Books ISBN 1-56849-077-1 , Cooper Square Press ISBN 0-8154-1022-0 ; London: Cassell ISBN 0-304-29114-5 , Pan ISBN 0-330-39066-X .
William Slim, Defeat into Victory, London: Cassell, 1956. Julian Thompson, The Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Burma 1942–1945 , London: Pan Macmillan, 2003. James Howard Williams ( Elephant Bill ), was Elephant Advisor to the Fourteenth Army, see his Elephant Bill (1950) and Bandoola (1953)
Japanese invasion of Burma. Part of the Burma campaign, the South-East Asian theatre of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific Theater of World War II. View of the Yenangyaung oil field on 16 April 1942 after its destruction ahead of the Japanese advance. Date. 14 December 1941 – 28 May 1942. (5 months, 1 week and 3 days)
15,888 wounded and missing [1] 6,513 killed. 6,299 wounded and missing [1] The concurrent Battle of Meiktila and Battle of Mandalay were decisive engagements near the end of the Burma campaign during World War II. Collectively, they are sometimes referred to as the Battle of Central Burma. Despite logistical difficulties, the Allies were able ...
The British Fourteenth Army under Lieutenant General William Slim made the main Allied thrust, codenamed Operation Capital, into central Burma. It consisted of IV Corps under Lieutenant General Frank Messervy and XXXIII Corps under Lieutenant General Montagu Stopford , together controlling six infantry divisions, two armoured brigades and three ...