Born of War –

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Kirkus Review: This fictional biography of the brilliant British strategist Orde Wingate covers his war career from guerrilla action in Palestine to splendid success in Ethiopia to its end in the China-India-Burma theater. The author (A-18, 1967; A Piece of This Country, 1970) is the son of Wingate's contemporary, the American general Maxwell Taylor. Just as the Burmese front in the war against the Japanese is a shadowy and forgotten affair to most Americans, so are the great names of that theater largely unknown. But, for all the action that may have been overshadowed by the war in Europe and the Pacific, Burma was the scene of vastly cruel warfare and one of the first successful Allied efforts against Japan in the war. The success came as a result of the daring and at first highly unpopular plans for long-range penetration laid by a British general, Orde Wingate. As is often the case, Wingate was very much of a maverick within the Royal Army, thanks to his appalling lack of skill at bureaucratic warfare and military politics. His egotism, suspicious nature, and inability to accommodate the weaknesses of his superiors created constant obstacles in his struggle to bring new thinking to the art of warfare. But despite Wingate's talent for self-destruction, his career went from dramatic success to dramatic success, notably in the daring but undervalued guerrilla action that led to the restoration of Haile Selassie's monarchy. Wingate's audacity and the telling description of high-level military decision-making make slogging through the memoir-ish prose worthwhile.

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