Posted by John Wilson on January 25, 2008 at 20:53:48 from 202.154.152.50 user hugo.
In Reply to: Re: FLASHMAN and Reading! posted by Pam Adams on January 23, 2008 at 17:25:04:
"Quartered Safe out here" by Fraser is highly recommended: about life in the ranks of the Border Regiment in General Slim’s "forgotten army" in Burma (just before the end of WWII). Quartered Safe - what he told his parents, but not that safe fighting the Japanese before the (A) bombs went off! He wrote about being the section scout and having to cross a hundred yards of open ground to a concealed village where there might or might not be a Japanese position – “I remember every step”. Later he was commissioned in the Gordon Highlanders. His parents were Scottish, but his father was a doctor in Carlisle, north England.
Re Tom Brown, Thomas Hughes wrote "Tom Brown at Oxford" a sequel to "Tom Brown's Schooldays" though the sequel is not apparently avaliable online on Project Gutenberg or similar.