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Quartered Safe Out Here (1993 original; edició 2000)

de George MacDonald Fraser

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'There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John Keegan Life 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".… (més)
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Títol:Quartered Safe Out Here
Autors:George MacDonald Fraser
Informació:HarperCollins (2000), Edition: New Ed, Paperback, 384 pages
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Etiquetes:military history, wwii, autobiography, burma

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Quartered Safe Out Here de George MacDonald Fraser (1993)

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    Defeat into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942–1945 de William Slim (chrisharpe)
    chrisharpe: George MacDonald Fraser praises Slim very highly, and for the commanding officer's perspective on GMF's soldier's eye view, you can't do better than Slim's self-effacing memoir.
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    With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa de E. B. Sledge (chrisharpe)
  3. 21
    Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War de William Manchester (superdubey)
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    Alamein to Zem Zem de Keith Douglas (Bushwhacked)
    Bushwhacked: A memorable Second World War Memoir.
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    The Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby de Alex Bowlby (Bushwhacked)
    Bushwhacked: A memorable Second World War Memoir.
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After having read the twelve Flashman novels and enjoying them immensely, I order this book along with Pyrates, Black Ajax and Mr. American, penned by the same author, to complete the George McDonald Fraser book of work

Unlike most of Fraser’s work, this is non-fiction. The only other non-fiction work of Fraser’s is Steel Bonnets, a book that I found thoroughly unreadable. This book, which details the author’s World War II service in Burma, was significantly better, though not extraordinary by any means.

While I can highly recommend the author’s Flashman body of work, I found most of his other books to be far below the standard set by Flashman. ( )
  santhony | Jun 28, 2023 |
Very good memoir of British (Scottish) soldier in the Burmese campaign against the Japanese at the end of WW II. Shows camaraderie with soldiers, mostly from Cumberland with their odd dialect and customs, as well as with soldiers from India. Good insights into actual combat experience and sad and funny experiences. ( )
  kslade | Dec 8, 2022 |
One of the best, most honest memoirs of World War II.
Fraser has an interesting, soldier's view on the dropping of the atomic bombs. ( )
2 vota superdubey | Aug 23, 2022 |
An excellent account of life in the British army in Burma in 1944/45. His extensive use of recreated conversation in phonetic patois is pretty unique. The book was written decades after the facts and the author is very straightforward about recall and timelines. This does not in any way diminish the work at all and his candor regarding the failings of memory is welcome.
The writing is excellent and the covered material fascinating. Highly recommended. ( )
  Whiskey3pa | Jan 1, 2022 |
Probably the last work by a soldier of the British Empire. A WW2 Burma campaign (14th Army) junior NCO recounts his service, and does a great job of bringing his largely-Cumbrian section to life vividly in the context of the campaign to Rangoon. A bit challenging to understand in some parts due to dialect, but engrossing. The comparison between the soldier and society of the time and today is quite stark; he is critical of modern society and seemingly rightfully so. It did leave me wanting to read more about the special forces/Chindits and the Imphal campaigns as well, not covered in this book. ( )
  octal | Jan 1, 2021 |
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You may talk o' gin and beer
When you're quartered safe out here,
An' you're sent to penny fights an' Aldershot it,
But when it comes to slaughter
You will do your work on water
An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.

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For Jack, Andrew, Harry, and Tom, some day, the tale of a grandfather
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It is satisfying, and at the same time slightly eerie, to read in an official military history of an action in which you took part, even as a very minor and bewildered participant.
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Wrap up all my care and woe,
Here I go, swinging low, Bye-Bye Shanghai. Wont somebody wait for me, Please get in a state for me, Bye-bye Shanghai.Up before the colonel in the morning. He gave me a rocket and a warning:

"You've been out with Sun Yat Sen, You won't go out with him again!"

Shaghai! Bye-bye.
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'There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John Keegan Life 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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