#warmemoir — Public Fediverse posts
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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
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“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:
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“…war is not a matter of maps with red and blue arrows and oblongs, but of weary, thirsty men with sore feet and aching shoulders wondering where they are…”
—George MacDonald Fraser, QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE: A recollection of the War in Burma
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#Scottish #literature #history #memoir #war #warmemoir #WW2 #Burma
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“QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE… provides insight into what it takes an individual to survive, both (with luck) physically &, more importantly, ethically”
—retired Australian Army officer Jason Thomas on George MacDonald Fraser’s memoir of the WW2 Burma campaign
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https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/special-series/dusty-shelves/quartered-safe/
#Scottish #literature #history #memoir #war #WW2 #Burma #warmemoir
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Red Platoon does not glorify war. It honors the men who fought one of the deadliest battles of the Afghanistan War. A must-read for every book lover.
#books #RedPlatoon #WarMemoir #ClintonRomesha #BookReview
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/red-platoon-book-review/