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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1993

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Publisher
  
Harvill

Originally published
  
1993

Genre
  
Memoir


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Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma is a military memoir of World War II written by the author of The Flashman Papers series of novels George MacDonald Fraser that was first published in 1993.

It describes in graphic and memorable detail Fraser's experiences as a 19-year-old private in The Border Regiment fighting with the British 14th Army against the Imperial Japanese Army during the latter stages of the Burma Campaign in late 1944 and 1945. This included his participation in the Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay and the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.

The military historian Sir John Keegan wrote: "There is no doubt that it is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War." The book has also been praised by the English author Melvyn Bragg and the American playwright David Mamet.

The book's title is a quotation from Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din and is ironic since Fraser certainly was not "quartered safe out here" while serving in Burma during one of the final campaigns of the war.

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