Author: SLIM Field-Marshal William
Title: Defeat into Victory. IN FULL THEMED MOROCCO
Description: Cassell,, [1956]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 21 maps (the majority folding); handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with XIV Army emblem, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, original backstrip gilt mounted on new and separate leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Personal account of the war in Burma by the Commander of the 'forgotten' Fourteenth Army, and now generally recognised as one of the great military memoirs of all time. AN ELEGANT COPY. Cole & Graham B20; Enser, p.91

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, burma, 14th army, fourteenth army, chindits, slim, william slim


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