Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma ~ George MacDonald Fraser

Quartered Safe Out Here

A Recollection of the War in Burma with a New Epilogue: Fifty Years on

George MacDonald Fraser 

'There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John Keegan Life and death in Nine Section, a small group of hard-bitten and (to modern eyes) possibly eccentric Cumbrian borderers with whom the author, then nineteen, served in the last great land campaign of World War II, when the 17th Black Cat Division captured a vital strongpoint deep in Japanese territory, held it against counter-attack and spearheaded the final assault in which the Japanese armies were, to quote General Slim, torn apart.

Binding: Hard cover with dust jacket. Soft cover.

Book Condition: Fair with some wear. The cover is a bit creased.

Edition: 2019

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