About the Author

Frank McLynn is a highly regarded historian who specializes in biographies and military history. He is the author of more than thirty books, including critically acclaimed biographies of Napoleon and Richard the Lionheart. He lives in Surrey, UK.

Reviews

“McLynn’s fiercely partisan judgments and lucid accounts of both military and political bloodletting provide a thoroughly satisfying experience.”—Kirkus Reviews
*Kirkus Reviews*

"The China-Burma-India Theater is one of the most overlooked and least understood—at least for Americans. McLynn traces the complex dance of the four main military actors (Vinegar Joe Stillwell, Bill Slim, Orde Wingate, and Lord Mountbatten) through brutal jungle logistics and battles."—World War II Magazine
*World War II Magazine*

“This is fine history, well-written and absorbing.”—John Linsenmeyer, Greenwich Patch
*Greenwich Patch*

“This is in my judgment the best survey of the south Asian campaign in existence. . . . The work is original, well researched, and provocative without being polemical.”—Dennis Showalter, Colorado College
*Dennis Showalter*

“A highly opinionated history of the bloody, half-forgotten World War II jungle campaign.”—Kirkus Reviews
*Kirkus Reviews*

“A sad sequel to great sacrifice is to have it more or less forgotten; think of the veterans of Korea, our `forgotten war.’ But even amid the colossal struggles of World War II, some have been unjustly neglected by many historians. Today’s excellent book The Burma Campaign, aptly subtitled Disaster in Triumph, 1942-45, by the prominent military historian and biographer Frank McLynn, remedies this neglect."—John Linsenmeyer, Greenwich Patch
*Greenwich Patch*

Won Honorable Mention in the 2012 New York Book Festival History category, sponsored by the New York Book Festival
*New York Book Festival*