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Quartered Safe Out Here a Recollection of the War in Burma Paperback - 1995
by Mac Donald Fraser, George
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- Title Quartered Safe Out Here a Recollection of the War in Burma
- Author Mac Donald Fraser, George
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Fair
- Pages 225
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Collins, London
- Date 1995
- Bookseller's Inventory # 063900
- ISBN 9780002726870 / 0002726874
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.43 x 5.33 x 0.82 in (21.41 x 13.54 x 2.08 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Great Britain, World War, 1939-1945
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93239336
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
'There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John KeeganLife 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”.