Author: EVANS Lieutenant-General Sir Geoffrey
Title: Slim as Military Commander. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Batsford,, [1969]. 8vo., First Edition, with fine portrait frontispiece, 48 plates on 22, 4 folding maps in red and black, 15 full-page maps, and front and rear endpaper maps; armorial cloth gilt, gilt back, blue top, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. 'I consider Slim was the finest general World War II produced' (Earl Mountbatten). General Evans fought under Slim as a divisional commander in Burma and has also provided (with Anthony Brett-James) the definitive account of Imphal, Slim's greatest victory against the Japanese. Increasingly elusive in this condition. Enser, p.406; Graham & Cole, L5.

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, far east, slim, fourteenth army, 14th army, burma, viscount slim


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