Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
By: George MacDonald Fraser
4.14
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
George MacDonald Fraser—beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels—offers an action-packe…
Want to Read $ 10.99". . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time."-George MacDonald Fraser, Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
"Fortunately for the world my generation didn't suffer from spiritual hypochondria - but then, we couldn't afford it. By modern standards, I'm sure we, like the whole population who endured the war, were ripe for counselling, but we were lucky; there were no counsellors."-George MacDonald Fraser, Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
"It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talking or brooding about it, much less in making, for form’s sake, a parade of it. Better and healthier to forget it, and look to tomorrow. The celebrated British stiff upper lip, the resolve to conceal emotion which is not only embarrassing and useless, but harmful, is just plain commons sense"-George MacDonald Fraser, Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
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