Unofficial history
William Joseph Slim Slim (Author)
Like most members of the professional military freemasonry, Slim came to admire ""all the soldiers of different races who have fought with me and most of those who have fought against me."" Among the most likable of his enemies were the Wazirs of India's Northwest Frontier. In 1920, Slim took part in a retaliatory raid on an obscure village. It was an unusually easy victory over the canny Wazirs, whom the British took by surprise and escaped from with scant loss. Afterwards, in the casual frontier way, the British sent a message to the Wazirs, expressing surprise at the enemy's unusually poor
eBook, English, 2008
Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, 2008