Fenrisco wrote:AztecDave wrote:"quartered safe out here" by george macdonald fraser.
Brilliant and sobering. Loved the part about his reaction to modern-day Japanese at the end - completely understandable and written sensitively while losing no strength whatsoever.
There is an audio version, read by the man himself, occasionally broadcast on Radio 4 Extra. That's the version I heard; is there really a character called "Grandarse" in the book?
just finished the book. one of the best i've read about platoon level war ever. imagine the audio is eveb better w/ the author reading it, emphasizing it his way, and speaking Cumbrian vs English.