Orde Wingate and the British Army 1922-1944

Major General Orde Wingate (1903–1944) was the most controversial British military commander of the Second World War, and perhaps of the last hundred years. Anglim's biography fills a significant void in the literature, making extensive use of Wingate's papers to place him firmly in the context of the British army of the time. Introduction; Chapter 1 The Doctrinal Background; Chapter 2 Wingate before Palestine, 1923–36; Chapter 3 Wingate and Counterterrorism in Palestine, 1937–9; Chapter 4 Wingate in Ethiopia, 1940–1; Chapter 5 Wingate in Burma – The Origins of the Chindits, 1942–3; Chapter 6 Wingate in Burma – Operations Longcloth and Thursday, and The Subsequent Development of Long Range Penetration; Chapter 7 The ‘Wingate Myth’ Reassessed;