{"product_id":"9781782003007","title":"Orde Wingate","description":"Orde Wingate rose to fame by creating the  Chindits in Burma in 1943. He is an extremely important figure in  military history, and deserves just as much attention as Alanbrooke,  Montgomery, and Auchinleck. Unlike them, however, he always operated  outside the accepted etiquette and the formal chain of command. He was a  maverick and misfit, and he held to the belief that the type of mass  warfare demonstrated on the Western Front (1914–18) had very little to  do with the warfare of the future. He believed that the latter would  require an 'indirect approach', in which heavily lumbering armies would  be exquisitely vulnerable to small groups of highly motivated, mobile  and well-armed guerrillas. This book covers Wingate’s experiences in  pre-war Palestine, in Ethiopia in 1941 (where he formed an irregular  guerrilla unit to harrass the Italian garrisons) and in World War II  Burma, where the two Chindit campaigns would be his apotheosis.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180937756912,"sku":"9781782003007","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781782003007_p0.jpg?v=1763777169","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781782003007","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}