This country is at war with Germany.

We shall go on to the end.

I remember the sheets of flame which came up and almost blinded us from our guns.

Today we're heading back to the Burma campaign but through a slightly different lens.

Rather than focusing on a single battle or operation, we examine three men who shaped how the war in Burma was fought and ultimately won.

When people think of commanders in the Far East, one name usually stands out, Bill Slim.

His leadership of the 14th Army and the victories at Imphal, Kohima and the advance into Burma rightly secure his place among Britain's most successful wartime commanders.

Claude Orkinleck is also well known, though more often for the Middle East

than for his crucial role in India during the later war years. But there is a third figure

who is far less familiar. Reginald Savory. He was not a battlefield commander in the popular

sense, but his influence on training,

doctrine and the transformation of the Indian Army was profound. Without the changes, he helped

drive. The victories of 1944 and 1945 would have looked very different. So today I'm joined

by Alan Jeffries and Raymond Callahan, authors of

Churchill's forgotten generals victors in Burma. In the book, they bring together these three careers

showing how Orkinleck, Slim and Savory were shaped by the Indian Army, how they learned from

early defeat, and how their combined efforts turned Burma from disaster into a success.

Well, chaps, thanks for joining me. I have to say, I did enjoy your book. It was a really good,

what I really enjoyed, actually, was the Ark.

I find Orknelek absolutely fascinating.

We'll maybe get this.

I can't help constantly think he's done a disservice by Montgomery,

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