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...Longest Day, the historically important memoirs of Ike or Monty have all the vitality of quartermaster supply reports. One of the war's few Great Captains who can hold his own with the professional writers is Viscount William Slim, commander of Britain's "forgotten" Fourteenth Army in Burma...
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...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A repeat of the award-winning documentary on the work of Dr. Gordon Seagrave at his hospital in Burma...
...often totally unexpected solutions even to conventional military problems. While working on guerrilla warfare, one of them remembered reading books by British-born Author John Masters, whose The Road Past Mandalay described his World War II experiences with Orde Wingate's Chindits behind the Japanese lines in Burma, got Masters to write several valuable reports on guerrilla warfare. Enthoven calculated that one Chinook helicopter could do the job-at less expense in men and money-now performed by 15 to 20 of the Army's workhorse "deuce and a half"' (2½-ton) trucks. And Dr. Merton...
Merrill's Marauders, in its quiet under-keyed way, keens a dirge of arms and the brave men who bore them in the suffocating jungle warfare behind the Japanese lines in Burma...