Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma
by George MacDonald Fraser
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0002726874
- ISBN 13
- 9780002726870
- Seller
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Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Clean, unmarked copy with slightly tanned pages. Soft vertical crease on the back cover, but not very prominent.
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
- BooksGalore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BX110-QS
- Title
- Quartered Safe Out Here
- Author
- George MacDonald Fraser
- Format/Binding
- Glued binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0002726874
- ISBN 13
- 9780002726870
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1995
- Pages
- 230
- Bookseller catalogs
- World War II; Biographies and Memoirs;