Quartered Safe Out Here - Softcover

Fraser, George Macdonald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007105932 ISBN 13: 9780007105939

Publisher: Harper, 2000

Synopsis

'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".

About this title

From the Publisher:

At the age of nineteen, the author saw nerve-wracking action during the British army's struggles against the Japanese in Burma, the last great land campaign of World War II. Fraser has now added to his rattling-good common soldier's memoir a substantial new afterword occasioned by the fiftieth anniversary of VJ-Day.

About the Author:

The author of the famous Flashman Papers, George MacDonald Fraser has worked on newspapers in Britain and Canada. In addition to his novels he has also written numerous films, most notably The Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers, and the James Bond film, Octopussy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0007105932
• ISBN 13: 9780007105939
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384