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# The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942-45 (Yale Library of Military History) Paperback – Illustrated, August 28, 2012

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Campaign Fought In Hell
  

*by N***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2013*

If a student of history read no other work on the campaigns of World War II, he would be left wondering why he was not now speaking German or Japanese. Burma was the bottom of the strategic barrel for the U.S. and Britain. Lack of men, lack of supplies, impossible logistics, but most of all a dearth of leadership plagued the Allies. America was supporting a brazenly corrupt and craven ally in Chiang Kai-shek, while Britain was defending a crumbling empire, to which it could deploy neither sufficient arms nor men. Burma became the dumping ground of unwanted military leaders; the discredited, the effete, the misanthropic and the down-right bazaar. McLynn's focus on the odd parade of leaders, who wandered onto the stage and then wandered off again, suggests that Burma was one campaign too far for the Allies. But Roosevelt's determination to save Chiang as our ace-in-the-hole for our anticipated invasion of Japan, and Britain's desire to save India at all costs kept the arms coming and the men dieing.McLynn examines the parade of fools with both fairness and wit, for Burma was an awful place to fight. There was the lost Wavell, the manic-depressive Orde Wingate, the misogynistic, Anglo-phobe "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell and finally the Royal fop, Mountbaten, who vowed to take the battle to the Japanese, while moving his headquarters farther away.McGlynn does consider the plight of the common soldiers, British, American, colonial and Chinese. They were a heroic bunch. One is left wondering what measure of courage is required to perform heroically in such a distant land, inadequately supplied and led.In the end, however, a hero emerges; a British general, named William Slim. You will search in vain for mention of his name in most histories of World War II. Slim, however, may have been the best fighting general to fight a major campaign in World War II, British or American. McGlynn dissects his final, glorious victory over the Japanese in Burma with the strategic & tactical insights of a Liddell Hart.This eminently well written book will leave you cheering at Slim's great triumph, yet weeping for those, who fought there.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Lost in History
  

*by C***G on Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2012*

I just completed reading this little know part of the much larger history of WWII. Part of the intent of the book was to just tell about that part of WWII and how it played out in Burma, India and China. I give it four and a half stars for that. It could have been a five if the maps were better. I knew next to nothing about what went on and who the players were. Now I know far more about it.  Almost the best part of the book is the profile of the people involved from top to bottom. Some times I am left wondering how any thing ever got done with the infighting going on at the top. It boggles the mind how wrong we were about Chiang Kai-shek and the princelings. When I read the news today I can see that not much has improved in China. There is enough "Back-stabbing" to fill the book alone.  There is good detail and plenty of facts and figures to paint a good word picture of this little known part of history.Anyone interested in history and world events will enjoy and learn from this well done book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The Burma Campaign in Full Relief
  

*by W***. on Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2011*

A well written book and a story well told. This covers the the disaster that Chiang Kaishek caused in the China-Burma-India theater of war during World War II. His corruption and unwillingness to fight the Japanese caused immeasurable harm to the defeat of the enemy in China and Burma. It tells of the frustrations of General Joseph Stillwell who had to deal with the Chinese and the triumph of General William "Bill" Slim over the Japanese in Burma.One significant criticism of the book is the lack of maps in order to follow the campaign, particularly in Burma, as well as elsewhere. There are a few maps widely dispersed but they hardly tell the story being related.

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