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  1. Currently on BBC Sounds: Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser

    Widely accepted as one of the best war-memoirs ever written – by turns hilarious, exciting, & moving – it recounts the author’s time with the 14th army in Burma

    Dramatised by Robin Brooks

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g34c

    #Scottish #literature #memoir #WW2 #Burma #warmemoir

  2. Currently on BBC Sounds: Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser

    Widely accepted as one of the best war-memoirs ever written – by turns hilarious, exciting, & moving – it recounts the author’s time with the 14th army in Burma

    Dramatised by Robin Brooks

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g34c

    #Scottish #literature #memoir #WW2 #Burma #warmemoir

  3. Currently on BBC Sounds: Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser

    Widely accepted as one of the best war-memoirs ever written – by turns hilarious, exciting, & moving – it recounts the author’s time with the 14th army in Burma

    Dramatised by Robin Brooks

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g34c

    #Scottish #literature #memoir #WW2 #Burma #warmemoir

  4. Currently on BBC Sounds: Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser

    Widely accepted as one of the best war-memoirs ever written – by turns hilarious, exciting, & moving – it recounts the author’s time with the 14th army in Burma

    Dramatised by Robin Brooks

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g34c

    #Scottish #literature #memoir #WW2 #Burma #warmemoir

  5. Currently on BBC Sounds: Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser

    Widely accepted as one of the best war-memoirs ever written – by turns hilarious, exciting, & moving – it recounts the author’s time with the 14th army in Burma

    Dramatised by Robin Brooks

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g34c

    #Scottish #literature #memoir #WW2 #Burma #warmemoir

  6. “An officer – he must have been a new arrival, and a right clown – ran out in front of the company and shouted, with enthusiasm: ‘Men! The war in Europe is over!’”

    —George MacDonald Fraser spent VE Day in 1945 waiting to attack a Japanese-held village in Burma – from his memoir QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE:

    #Scottish #literature #memoir #ww2 #Burma #warmemoir #VEDay

  7. “An officer – he must have been a new arrival, and a right clown – ran out in front of the company and shouted, with enthusiasm: ‘Men! The war in Europe is over!’”

    —George MacDonald Fraser spent VE Day in 1945 waiting to attack a Japanese-held village in Burma – from his memoir QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE:

    #Scottish #literature #memoir #ww2 #Burma #warmemoir #VEDay

  8. “An officer – he must have been a new arrival, and a right clown – ran out in front of the company and shouted, with enthusiasm: ‘Men! The war in Europe is over!’”

    —George MacDonald Fraser spent VE Day in 1945 waiting to attack a Japanese-held village in Burma – from his memoir QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE:

    #Scottish #literature #memoir #ww2 #Burma #warmemoir #VEDay

  9. “An officer – he must have been a new arrival, and a right clown – ran out in front of the company and shouted, with enthusiasm: ‘Men! The war in Europe is over!’”

    —George MacDonald Fraser spent VE Day in 1945 waiting to attack a Japanese-held village in Burma – from his memoir QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE:

    #Scottish #literature #memoir #ww2 #Burma #warmemoir #VEDay

  10. “An officer – he must have been a new arrival, and a right clown – ran out in front of the company and shouted, with enthusiasm: ‘Men! The war in Europe is over!’”

    —George MacDonald Fraser spent VE Day in 1945 waiting to attack a Japanese-held village in Burma – from his memoir QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE:

    #Scottish #literature #memoir #ww2 #Burma #warmemoir #VEDay

  11. #zine #burma #myanmar #palestine #nowreading

    This zine is from the Palestine Action Network and features an interview with the Progressive Muslim Youth Association and excerpts from The Muslim "Outsider", Between Borders "The Spring Revolution" and Burmese Exiles on the Thai -Myanmar Border.

    It discusses the Rohingya Muslims and how they have been accused of being outsiders in their own country by Burmese nationalists, including Aung San Su Kyi.

    It also discusses the solidarity with Palestine and Israel among different groups in Myanmar.

  12. This zine contains an interview with an activist in Myanmar before and during the coup who describes life resisting the temporary representative democratic government and the dictatorship that has followed it. The interviewee has moved to Mae Sot, Thailand but had organized in Burma for 20 years previously.

    #zine #myanmar #burma #anarchy #anarchism #reading #nowreading #thailand #activism

  13. This zine contains an interview with an activist in Myanmar before and during the coup who describes life resisting the temporary representative democratic government and the dictatorship that has followed it. The interviewee has moved to Mae Sot, Thailand but had organized in Burma for 20 years previously.

    #zine #myanmar #burma #anarchy #anarchism #reading #nowreading #thailand #activism

  14. This zine contains an interview with an activist in Myanmar before and during the coup who describes life resisting the temporary representative democratic government and the dictatorship that has followed it. The interviewee has moved to Mae Sot, Thailand but had organized in Burma for 20 years previously.

    #zine #myanmar #burma #anarchy #anarchism #reading #nowreading #thailand #activism

  15. This zine contains an interview with an activist in Myanmar before and after the coup who describes life resisting the temporary representative democratic government and the dictatorship that has followed it. The interviewee has moved to Mae Sot, Thailand but had organized in Burma for 20 years previously.

    #zine #myanmar #burma #anarchy #anarchism #reading #nowreading #thailand #activism

  16. This zine contains an interview with an activist in Myanmar before and during the coup who describes life resisting the temporary representative democratic government and the dictatorship that has followed it. The interviewee has moved to Mae Sot, Thailand but had organized in Burma for 20 years previously.

    #zine #myanmar #burma #anarchy #anarchism #reading #nowreading #thailand #activism

  17. @pasci_lei Krieg ohne Sieger – der „War on Drugs” der USA

    Text: #DortheMarch

    Das #Drogenproblem ist eine #Erfindung des 20. Jahrhunderts, an dem die #USA bis heute scheitern, sagt #Historikerin #HelenaBarop: „Bei dem Versuch, Drogenimporte aus der #Türkei, #Frankreich, #Thailand, #Burma, #Laos und #Mexiko zu verhindern, verstrickte sich die #Supermacht zwischen 1950 und 1979 in einen zermürbenden globalen #Drogenkrieg.”

    koerber-stiftung.de/projekte/d

    #Cannabis #warondrugs #Anslinger #Hanfwissen

  18. @pasci_lei Krieg ohne Sieger – der „War on Drugs” der USA

    Text: #DortheMarch

    Das #Drogenproblem ist eine #Erfindung des 20. Jahrhunderts, an dem die #USA bis heute scheitern, sagt #Historikerin #HelenaBarop: „Bei dem Versuch, Drogenimporte aus der #Türkei, #Frankreich, #Thailand, #Burma, #Laos und #Mexiko zu verhindern, verstrickte sich die #Supermacht zwischen 1950 und 1979 in einen zermürbenden globalen #Drogenkrieg.”

    koerber-stiftung.de/projekte/d

    #Cannabis #warondrugs #Anslinger #Hanfwissen

  19. @pasci_lei Krieg ohne Sieger – der „War on Drugs” der USA

    Text: #DortheMarch

    Das #Drogenproblem ist eine #Erfindung des 20. Jahrhunderts, an dem die #USA bis heute scheitern, sagt #Historikerin #HelenaBarop: „Bei dem Versuch, Drogenimporte aus der #Türkei, #Frankreich, #Thailand, #Burma, #Laos und #Mexiko zu verhindern, verstrickte sich die #Supermacht zwischen 1950 und 1979 in einen zermürbenden globalen #Drogenkrieg.”

    koerber-stiftung.de/projekte/d

    #Cannabis #warondrugs #Anslinger #Hanfwissen