Ep 66: George MacDonald Fraser – Quartered Safe Out Here

Ep 66: George MacDonald Fraser – Quartered Safe Out Here

Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Over the next 12 days Al and James are reading extracts from some of their favourite books about the Second World War. Today Al is reading from Quartered Safe Here, by George MacDonald Fraser.

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