Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, (6 August 1891 – 14 December 1970), usually known as Bill Slim, [1] was a British military commander and the 13th Governor …

Field Marshal William Slim is best known for commanding the Fourteenth Army in Burma during the Second World War (1939-45). He inherited a disastrous situation which, with pragmatic …

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim of Yarralumla and Bishopston was a British field marshal and chief of the Imperial General Staff who turned back an attempted Japanese invasion of India and …

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 …

2018年4月16日 · Its 900-mile withdrawal, the longest in British military history, was conducted by a little known Indian Army major general named William Slim. After their retreat the shape of …

General William Slim, architect of the 14th Army victory in Burma, inflicted the greatest land defeat on the Japanese in all of World War II. Nevertheless, Slim, pictured in 1945, was one of the …

2015年4月20日 · William ‘Bill’ Slim was a highly respected army commander. ‘Bill’ Slim found fame during the Burma campaign and especially the very important defeats of the Japanese …

Slim was a popular choice for Governor-General since he was an authentic war hero who had fought alongside Australians at Gallipoli and in the Middle East. In 1954, he was able to …

General William ‘Bill’ Slim was an army general who presided over the re-capturing of Burma in 1945. In 1952 he became Governor-General of Australia where he was famous as a war hero. …

2024年12月15日 · Some have considered Slim to be the greatest British general of WWII, or even since the Duke of Marlborough. Historian and journalist Max Hastings has written of Slim: “In …