Quartered Safe Out Here
Author: Fraser, George MacDonald
ISBN: 9780008334581
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 22mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
‘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”.
ISBN: 9780008334581
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 22mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
‘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”.
