Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II (Paperback)

from johnthefireman

George MacDonald Fraser is perhaps better known for his humour, in the Flashman series. This book certainly contains humour, as it details the boredom and farce of the everyday life of a soldier. In some ways it is thus similar to Spike Milligan's books on the war. But, unlike Milligan, Fraser sa...

from dougwood57

George MacDonald Fraser's flawed, but interesting and entertaining recollection of his service in Burma during the latter stages of WW II are well worth reading on their own merit and especially so for his legion of Flashman: A Novel readers. Some slice of that readership will be particularly int...

from antiquary

Wonderfully vivid and (as one would expect of Fraser) at times marvellously funny account of his experiences as a soldier in a Burma near the end of World War II. It is very honest about the ugly aspects of the war, but (unlike some of his fiction) it comes across as ultimately uncynical, with a ...

from Stbalbach

This World War II memoir, published long afterwards in 1992, is most interesting for the English accents and mannerisms from the north border region (Cumberland), in particular the back and forth banter among the working class front line soldiers, often very funny. And that's about it really, the...

from cajela

A war memoir of campaigning in Burma during World War 2. This is not from the officers and strategists, but from a bloke on the pointy end of things. There may well be an important battle with objectives and military tactics going on here, but your bit is to stay put here in this ratty half demol...