Quartered Safe Out Here
by Fraser, George Macdonald
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- Condition
- New Book
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MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia
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Synopsis
'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”.
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Barnes Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53076
- Title
- Quartered Safe Out Here
- Author
- Fraser, George Macdonald
- Book Condition
- New New Book
- Edition
- reprint
- Publisher
- Skyhorse
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Size
- octavo
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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