Slim - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slim write by Ronald Lewin. This book was released on 1999. Slim available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Field Marshal the Viscount Slim was blessed with none of the advantages of wealth and social position that eased the progress of many army officers. With only his integrity, personality and intellect he rose to the pinnacle of his career.
Field Marshal Sir William J. Slim
Field Marshal Sir William J. Slim - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Field Marshal Sir William J. Slim write by Richard A. Baylor. This book was released on 1998. Field Marshal Sir William J. Slim available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Field Marshal William J. Slim is known by many as one of the most persevering, triumphant, and yet caring leaders of this century. His accomplishments, particularly those in the Burma campaign during World War II, received much well deserved commendation. Undoubtedly, some of the more interesting aspects in the Burma campaign and other periods in Field Marshal Slim's lifetime were his unwavering ethical standards and personal moral strengths during the most desperate and brutal times. This paper looks closely at Field Marshal Slim's ethical development and leadership during his younger years, his senior leader years, and his later years. The examination shows the value of maintaining high ethical and moral standards, and how high standards can build a courageous organizational bond between soldiers that can prevail in the face of insurmountable odds in war and peace.
Defeat Into Victory
Defeat Into Victory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Defeat Into Victory write by William Slim. This book was released on 2009. Defeat Into Victory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These memoirs rank with those of Ulysses S. Grant as one of the few honest testaments [of war].--The Readers Companion to Military History
Field Marshal William J. Slim
Field Marshal William J. Slim - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Field Marshal William J. Slim write by Mary L. Brown. This book was released on 1986. Field Marshal William J. Slim available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Field Marshal William J. Slim: The Great General and the Breaking of the Glass Ceiling
Field Marshal William J. Slim: The Great General and the Breaking of the Glass Ceiling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Field Marshal William J. Slim: The Great General and the Breaking of the Glass Ceiling write by LTC Edward P. Egan. This book was released on 2015-11-06. Field Marshal William J. Slim: The Great General and the Breaking of the Glass Ceiling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Field Marshal William J. Slim is considered by many historians to be one of the finest generals of World War II. His accomplishments were truly extraordinary. He commanded a polyglot army, consisting of six different nationalities speaking eight different languages, that fought in some of the most inhospitable, disease-ridden country in the world against the war’s toughest opponent, the Japanese. In March 1942, he assumed command of a British-Indian force in Burma half way through the longest retreat in the British Army’s history. Even though he was unable to reverse the disaster, he kept his force intact and led it to safety. Over the next three and one half years, despite very limited resources and several inept senior commanders, he rebuilt his force into an army that was able to inflict on the Japanese their greatest land defeat of World War II. In the process, he conducted four of the most classic operational campaigns of the war—the battle of the Second Arakan; the battles of Kohima and Imphal; the capture of Mandalay and Meiktila; and the pursuit to Rangoon. Throughout his career, but especially during World War II, Slim met all the criteria for a great general and strategic leader as set forth in Lord Wavell’s Generals and Generalship. Despite these great accomplishments, Slim ran into several “glass ceilings” during World War II. Twice he was relieved of command, once immediately after his greatest battlefield victory. This study examines Field Marshal Slim’s leadership. It takes a brief look at his biography, then compares him against Wavell’s standards for generalship by highlighting events from his career that illustrate each standard. Finally, it addresses the issue of the “glass ceiling”—what it is, the events surrounding Slim’s encounters with it, and how Slim was able to overcome it. The intent is to show that Slim was not only a great World War II general, but is still a model of leadership worthy of study by the U.S. Army.
