“…and I haven't got to the bloody Japanese yet, with their poisoned stakes and booby traps and nasty habit of using prisoners for bayonet practice and no-surrender valour and fighting ability to match our own…almost.”

—  George MacDonald Fraser

The Defeat of the British Army. p. 184.
The Light's On At Signpost (2002)

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