Books by George MacDonald Fraser
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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.
Interviews where books by George MacDonald Fraser were recommended
The best books on Burma, recommended by Emma Larkin
The American writer has an obsession with recording Burma’s vanishing stories before the current regime’s actions result in the rewriting of Burmese history. She chooses five books on the real Burma
