Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
by George MacDonald Fraser
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1602391904
- ISBN 13
- 9781602391901
- Seller
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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
- PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 030680
- Title
- Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
- Author
- George MacDonald Fraser
- Illustrator
- Map
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1602391904
- ISBN 13
- 9781602391901
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2007
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- George MacDonald Fraser, World War II, Burma Campaign, British Soldiers, imphal,
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