Quartered Safe out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma
by Fraser, George MacDonald
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good; Corners bumped, covers scuffed.
- ISBN 10
- 1585790249
- ISBN 13
- 9781585790241
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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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
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40058
- Title
- Quartered Safe out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma
- Author
- Fraser, George MacDonald
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good; Corners bumped, covers scuffed.
- Edition
- 1st Paperback printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1585790249
- ISBN 13
- 9781585790241
- Publisher
- The Akadine Press
- Place of Publication
- Pleasantville, NY
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- 1585790249, Burma Campaign
- Bookseller catalogs
- World War II; Biography and Memoir;
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