Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unofficial History, by Field Marshal the Viscount Slim. Graceful and soldierly recollections from that military rarity, a general who can write of battles as well as he fights them...
...Slim's vivid, modest account of the Burma campaign, Defeat into Victory, is already reckoned a minor masterpiece of war reporting. His new Unofficial History of assorted lesser campaigns in a 48-year army career boosts his reputation as a soldier who can reconstruct battles as brilliantly as he fought them...
Likable Enemies. An amiable blend of Colonel Blimp, Pukka Sahib and strategic genius, onetime Schoolmaster "Uncle Bill" Slim rose from the ranks to officer status during World War I. One of his first commands, as he recalls it with humor and affection in Unofficial History, was as head of two companies of infantry, pursuing the rear guard of a Turkish army across the Tigris River...
...Resourceful, Victory. Slim gallantly-and refreshingly-admits his own strategic errors in Burma, and gives plentiful credit to subordinates. The Burmese war, he argues, was an ideal training ground for future battles of a nuclear...
Nuclear war will inevitably disrupt communications and force armies to disperse to thinly populated areas; survival will demand near-perfect discipline and quick adaptation to new surroundings. "After the first shock of mutual devastation had been survived," insists Slim, "victory would go, as it did in our other jungle, to the tougher, more resourceful infantryman. The easier and more gadget-filled our daily life becomes, the harder will it be to produce him. It took us some time to do so in Burma. It can be done in peace; in war, there will no longer be so much time...