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Quartered Safe out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma
de Fraser, George MacDonald
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Very Good; Corners bumped, covers scuffed.
- ISBN 10
- 1585790249
- ISBN 13
- 9781585790241
- Librería
-
Selkirk, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Pleasantville, NY: The Akadine Press. Very Good; Corners bumped, covers scuffed.. 2001. 1st Paperback printing. Softcover. 1585790249 . Glossary. Fraser is best known for his hilarious Flashman novels about the British Victorian soldier/scalawag, but this book is his memoir about his days as a soldier with the 17th Black Cat Division in the Burma campaign. xxii, 231 pages. Black and white map and glossary. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Sinopsis
'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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Detalles
- Librería
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 40058
- Título
- Quartered Safe out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma
- Autor
- Fraser, George MacDonald
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Softcover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good; Corners bumped, covers scuffed.
- Edición
- 1st Paperback printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 1585790249
- ISBN 13
- 9781585790241
- Editorial
- The Akadine Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Pleasantville, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 2001
- Palabras clave
- 1585790249, Burma Campaign
- Catálogos del vendedor
- World War II; Biography and Memoir;
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