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Unofficial History field-Mrshall Sir William Slim (Paperback)
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Unofficial History field-Mrshall Sir William Slim (Paperback)
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Like most members of the professional military freemasonry, Slim
came to admire "all the soldiers of different races who have fought
with me and most of those who have fought against me." Among the
most likable of his enemies were the Wazirs of India's Northwest
Frontier. In 1920, Slim took part in a retaliatory raid on an
obscure village. It was an unusually easy victory over the canny
Wazirs, whom the British took by surprise and escaped from with
scant loss. Afterwards, in the casual frontier way, the British
sent a message to the Wazirs, expressing surprise at the enemy's
unusually poor shooting. The Wazirs replied in courtly fashion that
their rifles were Short Magazine Lee-Enfields captured in previous
fights with the British and that they had failed to sight the guns
to accord with a new stock of ammunition. Now, having calculated
the adjustment, they would be delighted to demonstrate their
bull's-eye accuracy any time the British wanted. "One cannot help
feeling," Slim says, "that the fellows who wrote that ought to be
on our side." Slim genuinely enjoyed his virtually blood-free
skirmishes with such foes as the Turks, the Wazirs and the Italians
in 1940 Ethiopia.
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