Slim (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: War Leader Book, No. 12)

160 pp. William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim of Yarralumla and Bishopston, (born Aug. 6, 1891, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died Dec. 14, 1970, London), British field marshal and chief of the Imperial General Staff who turned back an attempted Japanese invasion of India and defeated the Japanese armies in Burma (Myanmar) during World War II.