Flashman and the Angel of the Lord - George McDonald Fraser

Quartered Safe Out Here - George McDonald Fraser

Quartered Safe Out Here is the late George MacDonald Fraser s memoir of his time in World War II Burma as a young soldier. As part of Fourteenth Army, Fraser served in Nine Section , a group of eccentric but hard-bitten Cumbrian borderers as they took part in the last great land campaign of World war II. In addition to providing a vivid account of what life was like living and fighting in the jungle, Fraser also looks at modern attitudes to war and contrasts them with the attitudes of his generation. There is also an epilogue which takes place fifty years after the end of the war. The book runs to just under 350 pages and includes one map. "It is satisfying, ...

Quartered Safe Out Here - George McDonald Fraser

Quartered Safe Out Here is the late George MacDonald Fraser s memoir of his time in World War II Burma as a young soldier. As part of Fourteenth Army, Fraser served in Nine Section , a group of eccentric but hard-bitten Cumbrian borderers as they took part in the last great land campaign of World war II. In addition to providing a vivid account of what life was like living and fighting in the jungle, Fraser also looks at modern attitudes to war and contrasts them with the attitudes of his generation. There is also an epilogue which takes place fifty years after the end of the war. The book runs to just under 350 pages and includes one map. "It is satisfying, ...

Flashman on the March - George McDonald Fraser

Flashman on the March - George MacDonald Fraser There are some books you buy on a recommendation, some you buy on a whim and some you buy because they re by a favourite author. And then there are those that when you see them on the shelf or in an advertisement you immediately stop what you re doing and rush to the nearest bookshop to buy a copy. For me, finding out that there was a new Flashman novel coming off the presses was just one of these momentous occasions. The previous book (Flashman and the Tiger) had been a collection of three, shortish, stories and many fans took this as a sign that the well was dry and we d seen all we were going to see of Flashman. This ...

Flashman on the March - George McDonald Fraser

Flashman on the March - George MacDonald Fraser There are some books you buy on a recommendation, some you buy on a whim and some you buy because they re by a favourite author. And then there are those that when you see them on the shelf or in an advertisement you immediately stop what you re doing and rush to the nearest bookshop to buy a copy. For me, finding out that there was a new Flashman novel coming off the presses was just one of these momentous occasions. The previous book (Flashman and the Tiger) had been a collection of three, shortish, stories and many fans took this as a sign that the well was dry and we d seen all we were going to see of Flashman. This ...

Flashman on the March - George McDonald Fraser

* Flashman on the March is the twelfth instalment in the on-going (or so one hopes) disclosure of "The Flashman Papers" as "edited and arranged" by George Macdonald Fraser. The underlying idea is that the "Papers" were supposedly discovered in a Leicestershire manor-house and found to consist of the reminiscences of Brigadier-General Sir Harry Flashman, VC etc. Apparently written in his old age around 1900 they span Flashman s illustrious although previously underreported career, detailing his involvement in almost every major crisis and conflict from 1840 onwards. Until their discovery, the modern public were largely unaware of ...

Flashman on the March - George McDonald Fraser

* Flashman on the March is the twelfth instalment in the on-going (or so one hopes) disclosure of "The Flashman Papers" as "edited and arranged" by George Macdonald Fraser. The underlying idea is that the "Papers" were supposedly discovered in a Leicestershire manor-house and found to consist of the reminiscences of Brigadier-General Sir Harry Flashman, VC etc. Apparently written in his old age around 1900 they span Flashman s illustrious although previously underreported career, detailing his involvement in almost every major crisis and conflict from 1840 onwards. Until their discovery, the modern public were largely unaware of ...