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 Quartered Safe Out Here - George McDonald Fraser
Newest Review: ... it paints a real picture of what it was like to be taken from an ordinary British town and placed in the middle of a war in ... more  ... one of the most extraordinary locations imaginable. The vastness of the Burmese jungle and life within it as a footsore soldier is brought home to the reader in a fascinating manner. Fraser also does an excellent job writing about the rest of Nine Section. Their grumbling, arguments, jokes, adventures, losses and journey through the war.
He includes an author's note about Cumberland dialects and writes the dialogue of Nine Section in this style. It's a little confusing at first but you get used to it. It adds a not...more |
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Quartered Safe Out Here - George McDonald Fraser: "I'm attacking Pyawbwe by submarine!" (1173 words)
by - written on 23/07/08 (Very useful, 148 readings)
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Quartered Safe Out Here is the late George MacDonald Fraser's memoir of his time in World War II Burma as a young soldier. As part of Fourteenth Army, Fraser served in 'Nine Section', a group of eccentric but 'hard-bitten' Cumbrian borderers as they took part in 'the last great land campaign of World war II.' In addition to providing a vivid account of what life was like living and fighting in the jungle, Fraser also looks at modern attitudes to war and contrasts them with the attitudes of his generation. There is also an epilogue which takes place fifty years after the end of the war. The book runs to just under 350 pages and includes one ... Read the complete review
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