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Thread: Who was the most charismatic military leader in WWII?
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[quote=TRAVELLERMIKE,243435]The General I put forward is Bill Slim, who joined the army as a private in 1914. He rose through the ranks, and spent most of the years between the first and second world wars as a Gurkha Officer. By 1942 he had risen to command the rearguard of the British army that retreated from Burma. During that action, his men marched and fought for a hundred days and nights and across a thousand miles, but the retreat was disciplined, and, on reaching the border of India, the army turned and held the Japanese assault. A great new army (the 14th) was built up around the defended position, to the point which at which it could take the offensive once again. Under Bill Slim's Generalship it then drove back the Japanese, re-taking the ground lost. That it did this with such effect is testament to the leadership provided by Bill Slim, who had the ability to demand the seemingly impossible from his troops, and yet have them love him for it![/quote]
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