Quartered Safe Out Here
by George MacDonald Fraser
The first line of this book is: ‘The first time I smelt Jap was in a deep dry riverbed in the Dry Belt, somewhere near Meiktila. I can no more describe the smell than I could describe a colour, but it was heavy and pungent and compounded of stale cooked rice and sweat and human waste and . . .Jap.’ And this takes you straight back to George MacDonald Fraser’s time during the Second World War in Burma.
