Bill Slim

BILL SLIM WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST BRITISH GENERALS OF WORLD WAR II. IN A CAREER THAT STRETCHED FROM 1914 UNTIL 1958, BILL SLIM`S GREATEST TRIUMPHS CAME IN INDIA AND BURMA IN THE LONG WAR AGAINST THE JAPANESE BETWEEN 1944 AND 1945. HE WAS NO THEORETICAL SOLDIER, BUT IN HIS DEMONSTRATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF WHAT IS TODAY CALLED `MANEUVER WARFARE` HE IS REGARDED AS ONE OF THE FINEST COMMANDERS OF THE MODERN AGE.