Buy this book on-line ROONEY,DAVID: : WINGATE AND THE CHINDITS:Redressing the BalanceLONDON.ARMS & ARMOUR PRESS,1994. ISBN 1854092049.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,unclipped dw/dj - no publisher price - assumed export 1st edn,as these usually preceded 1st trade edns.Bright, clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial wrap-around artwork [Chindits:Broadway, Burma,5th-6th March 1944] by David Rowlands,illustrated dw/dj - a small subject portrait b/w superimposed photograph to upper wrap; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.
Minisculely bumped with reciprocal creases
to head+foot of spine/backstrip,and no corners bumped.Top edge lightly dust-soiled and lightly thumbed but generally clean,fore-edge similar; contents bright, tight and near pristine.Bright,clean,plain
Air-Force blue paper-covered bds with bright,risp,stamped gilt letters to spine/
backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn (approx 9.50" tall x 6.25" wide),7-256pp includes half-title+title pages,contents+maps lists,Pts 1+2 covering 11 chapters,17 b/w maps all called for,author intro,prologue,16pp contemporary b/w photographs,select biblio
and sources,and an index.
Orde Wingate was not an easy man.Renowned
for his daring exploits in Palestine, Ethiopia and Burma,he had an abrasiveness
that induced resentment - but also instilled respect and admiration in those whom he served and the men he commanded.
This diversity of opinion - loyalty and devotion on the one hand,hostility on the other - has prevented a balanced assessment of the achievements of Wingate and his Chindit forces,their value and their significance in the evolution of battlefield tactics and strategy.With the aid of much new research,David Rooney charts Wingate's early life,his time in Africa and the Middle East,and his campaigns with the Chindits in Burma.The author follows this study of the maverick warrior's career by demonstrating how succeeding generations of historians and students have been influenced in their assessment of the man by the biased words of the Editor of the Official History of the Burma campaign,who not only allowed his own ill-judged views to govern his text but actively sought to amend private accounts of the war - even those of Field Marshal Slim, the British commander in Burma.
This book does indeed redress the balance.It presents the facts that thoughtful,diligent research has uncovered.Readers will be left with a broader interpretation of a colourful career,devoid of favour or assumption,from
which they can form a more valid impression of Major General Orde Wingate.
Like the man himself,the book will intrigue,inspire and invigorate.It shows the same determination to get to the truth
as its subject showed in a military career
of daring originality.
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