Quartered Safe Out Here
by Fraser, George MacDonald
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0002726874
- ISBN 13
- 9780002726870
- Seller
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Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom
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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
- Baggins Book Bazaar Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 064783
- Title
- Quartered Safe Out Here
- Author
- Fraser, George MacDonald
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0002726874
- ISBN 13
- 9780002726870
- Publisher
- Harvill
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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