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by George MacDonald Fraser (Author)
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  • Paperback: 358 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; New Ed edition (16 Oct 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007105932
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007105939
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 11 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
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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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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Poignant and unforgettable memoir, 7 Oct 2001
By rdolan9007@aol.com (Ross shire - Scotland) - See all my reviews
George Macdonald Fraser has such a superb and accessible style that at first that I thought it wouldn't be suited to the brutal and harsh details
of the Burma campaign. Yet as the memoir goes on the detail becomes much grimmer, much more vivid, and you really do gain an insight into the soldiers view of war. The fear, the confusion, the spoken and unspoken comradeship of the soldiers.

You also find out what he thinks about the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and it makes for fascinating reading. What George Macdonald Fraser really does is bring home to you, that war is often 'little' violent terrifying skirmishes rather than huge massive well ordered battles.

He is a little too dismissive of today's more emotional society, rather than the stiff upper lip of the second world war. Although you can understand up to a point why he is so critical.

The great thing about this memoir is that there is no false sentimentality. It is honest, and some will no doubt find his views controversial.
However, he does have the benefit of having being in battle, and that gives his views a force that is hard to deny.

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A valuable and absorbing account of front-line soldiering, 31 Aug 2001
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This really is the kind of book that should be on the history exam syllabus. At a time when the West is obsessed with post-imperial guilt, and to have been on the the winning side in the war is often regarded as something to be ashamed of, this book offers a valuable insight into why, sixty years ago, people thought it important to fight. The long periods of tedious activity (enlivened by GMF's focus on the humourous and the absurd) are contrasted with brief but intense fire-fights that take the reader inside the experience of infantry battle; the episode when GMF describes the loss of a third of his unit in under 2 minutes is harrowing. But what makes this memoir so wonderfully written is GMF's ability to describe the emotions and concerns of him and his comrades (and his thoughts on the Hiroshima bomb are fascinating, if not quite what you would expect by the end of the book)...
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A soldier's memoir like no other, 9 Jan 2006
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This book deserves 5 stars because it is one of the very best of its kind. It is a soldier's memoir but what sets it apart is how vividly the writing conjures up the atmosphere of fighting in Burma in 1945; the heat, the rain, the weirdness and terror of fighting in the jungle at night, the rough good humour and companionship, the sudden death, the team dynamics of a battle hardened section and the espirit de corps of the multi racial Fourteenth Army under General Slim. You finish this book having laughed a lot and tasted a little of what it must have been like to soldier in Burma. It's a great little book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Lost World
"Quartered Safe Out Here" -- the sardonic title is revealing -- describes graphically the fighting experienced by ordinary soldiers, from the time the British (mainly Indian) XIV... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully insightful. Moving and very funny.
George MacDonald Fraser is a master with a pen in his hand. He has a knack for sound sense, and he can also be very funny. Read more
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I have only just encountered this book this weekend and read a few chapters after being "lent" a hard copy from my partners father whose father in law was one of the chindits who... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential British heritage
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