Quartered Safe Out Here

Author : George MacDonald Fraser
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780008334581
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quartered Safe Out Here written by George MacDonald Fraser and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John Keegan

Author : George MacDonald Fraser
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007325762
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quartered Safe Out Here written by George MacDonald Fraser and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War’ John Keegan

Author : George MacDonald Fraser
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007105932
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quartered Safe Out Here written by George MacDonald Fraser and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2000 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A moving and penetrating contribution to the literature of the Burma campaign." Max Hastings, Daily Telegraph

Author : George MacDonald Fraser
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101633794
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flashman written by George MacDonald Fraser and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If ever there was a time when I felt that 'watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet' stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman."– P.G. Wodehouse Fraser revives Flashman, a caddish bully from Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes, and relates Flashman’s adventures after he is expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. Flashy enlists in the Eleventh Light Dragoons and is promptly sent to India and Afghanistan, where despite his consistently cowardly behavior he always manages to come out on top. Flashman is an incorrigible anti-hero for the ages. This humorous adventure book will appeal to fans of historical fiction, military fiction, and British history as well as to fans of Clive Cussler, James Bond, and The Three Musketeers. Flashman is the first book of the famous “Flashman Papers” series.

Author : George MacDonald Fraser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628731931
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quartered Safe Out Here written by George MacDonald Fraser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-10-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George MacDonald Fraser—beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels—offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the war's final year, and he offers a first-hand glimpse at the camaraderie, danger, and satisfactions of service. A substantial Epilogue, occasioned by the 50th anniversary of VJ-Day in 1995, adds poignancy to a volume that eminent military historian John Keegan described as "one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War."

Author : George MacDonald Fraser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628730374
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete McAuslan written by George MacDonald Fraser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George MacDonald Fraser's hilarious stories of the most disastrous soldier in the British Army are collected together for the first time in one volume. Private McAuslan, J., the Dirtiest Soldier in the World (alias the Tartan Caliban, or the Highland Division's answer to the Pekin Man) first demonstrated his unfitness for service in The General Danced at Dawn. He continued his disorderly advance, losing, soiling or destroying his equipment, through the pages of McAuslan in the Rough. The final volume, The Sheikh and the Dustbin, pursues the career of the great incompetent as he shambles across North African and Scotland, swinging his right arm in time with his right leg and tripping over his untied laces. His admirers know him as court-martial defendant, ghost-catcher, star-crossed lover and golf caddie extraordinary. Whether map-reading his erratic way through the Sahara by night or confronting Arab rioters, McAuslan's talent for catastrophe is guaranteed. Now, the inimitable McAuslan stories are collected together in one glorious volume.

Author : George MacDonald Fraser
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0307592685
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game written by George MacDonald Fraser and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three of George MacDonald Fraser’s incomparable and hilarious novels featuring the lovable rogue, soldier, cheat, and coward: Harry Paget Flashman. Praised by everyone from John Updike to Jane Smiley, Fraser was an acknowledged master of comedy and satire, an unrivaled storyteller, whose craft was matched only by his impeccable historical research. And his greatest creation was, of course, Flashman. The novels collected here find our hero in the midst of his usual swashbuckling adventures of derring-do: fleeing adversaries in the First Anglo-Afghan War; meeting and nearly deceiving a young Abraham Lincoln in America; alternately impersonating a native Indian cavalry recruit and wooing women in India; and managing, whatever the circumstances, to keep his hero’s reputation unsullied. A must-have treat for the legions of dedicated Flashman fans, and a delightful introduction for those lucky enough to be encountering him for the first time.

Author : John Masters
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1474626076
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road Past Mandalay written by John Masters and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second part of the bestselling novelist's dramatic autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world war This is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a bestselling novelist at the height of his powers, it is an exceptionally moving story that culminates in him having to personally shoot a number of wounded British soldiers who cannot be evacuated before their position is overrun by the Japanese. It is an uncomfortable reminder that Churchill's obsession with 'special forces' squandered thousands of Allied lives in operations that owed more to public relations than strategic calculation. This military and moral odyssey is one of the greatest of World War II frontline memoirs.

Author : George MacDonald Fraser
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307425924
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flashman on the March written by George MacDonald Fraser and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1868 and Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., arch-cad, amorist, cold-headed soldier, and reluctant hero, is back! Fleeing a chain of vengeful pursuers that includes Mexican bandits, the French Foreign Legion, and the relatives of an infatuated Austrian beauty, Flashy is desperate for somewhere to take cover. So desperate, in fact, that he embarks on a perilous secret intelligence-gathering mission to help free a group of Britons being held captive by a tyrannical Abyssinian king. Along the way, of course, are nightmare castles, brigands, massacres, rebellions, orgies, and the loveliest and most lethal women in Africa, all of which will test the limits of the great bounder’s talents for knavery, amorous intrigue, and survival. Flashman on the March—the twelfth book in George MacDonald Fraser’s ever-beloved, always scandalous Flashman Papers series--is Flashman and Fraser at their best.

Author : Patrick Hennessey
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101460059
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Junior Officers' Reading Club written by Patrick Hennessey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a classic of war writing in the U.K., The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a revelatory first-hand account of a young enlistee's profound coming of age. Attempting to stave off the tedium and pressures of army life in the Iraqi desert by losing themselves in the dusty paperbacks on the transit-camp bookshelves, Hennessey and a handful of his pals from military academy form the Junior Officers' Reading Club. By the time he reaches Afghanistan and the rest of the club are scattered across the Middle East, they are no longer cheerfully overconfident young recruits, hungering for action and glory. Hennessey captures how boys grow into men amid the frenetic, sometimes exhilarating violence, frequent boredom, and almost overwhelming responsibilities that frame a soldier's experience and the way we fight today. Watch a Video