A bit challenging to understand in some parts due to dialect, but engrossing.  12,40 €, 21,48 € Fraser alludes to the nature of memoirs when he says, "This is what the history books say about the event... [insert one sentence summary here]... but here is what it was like to be there... [spend a chapter describing the event]."  12,40 €, 23,52 €  20,99 €, 18,07 € Expected delivery to France in 8-12 business days. He also explains much about the military, and the warfare of that time and place, from what arms were used by whom to supply drops, from strategies to conflicts, rivalries, promotions, duty, the sometimes long waits between engagements, and what it was like to enjoy a few days leave in Calcutta. The series begins with Flashman, and is notable for the accuracy of the historical settings and praise from critics. It makes it all seem terribly real, authentic not in a strict literal sense but able to convey what it was actually like.  20,10 €, 13,26 € Quite simply, the best personal history of World War Two I've read... yes, the only one, but still.. Fraser carries a more reflective style, that is particularly interesting in that he addresses the differing perspectives of now and then. This book is often funny, occasionally sad, and ultimately worth reading. (Note that much of the dialogue -- especially the jocular dialogue -- is given in Cumbrian dialect, with a few footnotes meant to aid translation: it can still be an effort to decode their speech.) These cookies are necessary to provide our site and services and therefore cannot be disabled. There are also humorous episodes, and Fraser is particularly taken with the largely good-natured camaraderie of his fellow-soldiers, heroes all to him.

By the way, the title is "Quartered Safe Out Here", not "Quartered Safe Out There"--the ISBN search pulled the wrong title. His recollections of battle, hardship, his mates and the Japanese enemy are vividly rendered, as you might expect from a lifelong journalist and author of the Flashman series. A well-written, warts-and-all memoir about the author’s time in Burma during the last year of WWII. George MacDonald Fraser served in World War II and went on to become a journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. Still a gripping read. The strange decisions the soldiers had to make, like whether to shoot Japanese soldiers while sleeping, or to wake them up first, are the reality of the grunt's world (they decided it didn't matter much, one way or the other). Still, fans will easily recognize his ear for dialect (indiscernible Cumbrian accents abound) and eye for the absurd (battling a foot-long centipede during a mortar barrage!).  11,40 €, 10,37 € In this rattling-good memoir, novelist, historian, and screenwriter Fraser vividly recounts the nerve-racking frontline action he saw while serving as a nineteen-year-old soldier during what turned out to be the last great land campaign of World War II—the British army’s ferocious campaign against the Japanese in Burma. Still, Fraser's novelistic touches are all for the best. Fraser was of Scottish descent, but raised in Carlisle in the North of England.

The choices you make here will apply to your interaction with this service on this device. Not surprisingly, this work is much more sober than Fraser's fiction, being an intense grunt's-eye view of a nasty conflict. P.G. What he states in the strongest and most uncompromising terms are his views on the comradeship and character of the men he fought alongside, his lasting hatred of the Japanese who were such a formidable and terrible enemy and his dismay at the loss over the years of what it meant to his generation to be British. We’d love your help. Having served in infantry units myself, I felt the truth of this account in my bones.