I bought this book online, and when I first opened it and saw that it would tell the history of the war in Burma though the stories of Mountbatten, Wingate, Stilwell and Slim I was worried that it would be a tiresome tale of personalities and allied infighting. Well, there's plenty of that, but this book is also the most complete narrative and analysis of the war in Burma that I have seen so far, and properly covers the campaign in every part of the theatre.