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Unofficial History, by Field Marshal the Viscount Slim. Graceful and soldierly recollections from that military rarity, a general who can write of battles as well as he fights them...
UNOFFICIAL HISTORY (242 pp.)-Field Marshal the Viscount Slim-David McKay...
DEFEAT INTO VICTORY (468 pp.)-Field Marshal the Viscount Slim-David McKay...
...softening in Peking's tone. Perhaps it was just a lullaby over the Laos settlement, or maybe the Reds were too hungry at home to take on external adventures. At any rate, in his closing speech to the negotiators of the Laos accord, Peking's Foreign Minister, Marshal Chen Yi, 61, sounded almost benign. After some standard bluster, the tough veteran of the civil war said: "We have, after all, broken a link in the chain of tension in Southeast Asia, and we should enlarge this breakthrough." Chen even found a reasonably hopeful and almost scrutable Old Chinese...
...prevent Red rabble-rousers from ousting his government before the federation can be established. The once solid majority of Lee's Political Action Party in the Singapore Legislative Assembly has been dissipated through defections to a Communist-front known as the Barisan Socialists, who have been able to marshal tremendous support among the island's underfed, underemployed, predominantly Chinese masses. Lee's all too nimble shifting of position from right to left in the past has also cost him conservative supporters, who now maintain the P.A.P. in power only because they regard it as a far lesser...