Quartered Safe Out Here
Book description
After 25 years of chronicling the military misadventures of Flashman, the Victorian arch-cad, George MacDonald Fraser has temporarily deserted fiction to write this, his own personal account of the Burma War. In this book he describes life and death in Nine Section, a small group of hard-bitten and possibly eccentric…
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1 author picked Quartered Safe Out Here as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I go back to this book often, often just diving into one of my many favourite scenes. Fraser is the author of the famous Flashman series, and the humor of these books also occasionally appears in Quartered Safe Out Here.
However, since this book is about Fraser’s service as a young soldier in the Burma Campaign of 1944-45, there are many descriptions of the brutality of firefights (or duffies, as they were called), men being killed or wounded, and the effects of this brutality not just on Fraser but also on the other men in his platoon (hard-bitten men…
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