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The Burma Campaign

Disaster into Triumph, 1942–45
by Frank McLynn
The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942–45. Yale Univ. (Library of Military History). Oct. 2011. c.544p. illus. maps. index. ISBN 9780300171624. $35. MILITARY HISTORY
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Prodigious biographer and military historian McLynn (Captain Cook: Master of the Seas) has turned his attention to what he considers one of the great epics of British imperial history, the World War II campaign in Burma against the Japanese. McLynn recounts the struggle for Burma from the viewpoint of four "larger-than-life" personalities: William Slim, Louis Mountbatten, Orde Wingate, and the American Joseph Stilwell.
VERDICT While McLynn extends his scope beyond the conflict itself to the larger issues of Japanese aggression, American miscalculations, and Churchill's greatness, this is a personalized account of warfare that fans of E.B. Sledge's With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa will enjoy.
Reviewed by Brian Odom, Pelham P.L., AL , Oct 15, 2011
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