Quartered Safe Out Here

by George Mac Donald Fraser (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $3.42

  George MacDonald Fraser's recollection of the war in Burma.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $4.49

  '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 .