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	George MacDonald Fraser Biography
		George MacDonald Fraser nolonger lives in the area but the character of the people and the area is still evident in his writing.
		Fraser was still a teenager when the war in Europe broke out, progressing until December 7, 1941 when the Japanese bombed pearl harbour bringing America into the war.
		Fraser joined the Border Regiment as a young man (just eighteen.) in 1943 and was sent to join Section 9, Company B of the 9th Border regiment in 17th Indian division in India.
	www.harryflashman.org /GMF.htm (1739 words)

	George Macdonald - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Hovering between irony and innocence: George MacDonald's "The Light Princess" and the gravity of childhood.
		Battle cry for the silent majority; George MacDonald Fraser, one of our best-loved novelists, has watched Britain being destroyed by political correctness, the cancerous compensation culture, and government arrogance.
		George MacDonald Fraser, one of our most successful writers, deplores the state of modern Britain.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-macdong.html (475 words)

	Fraser, George MacDonald \| Authors \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Fraser joined the army in 1943, fighting in India and Burma during the second world war and later serving with the Gordon Highlanders in the Middle East.
		As well as providing a fine assortment of treats, George MacDonald Fraser is a marvellous reporter and a first-rate historical novelist." This comment from Kingsley Amis is fairly typical of the level of approbation that Fraser's work commands.
		Fraser wrote the screenplay for Richard Lester's movie of Royal Flash (a send-up of The Prisoner of Zenda) with Malcolm McDowell as Flashman and Oliver Reed as Bismarck.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,,-234,00.html (844 words)

	George MacDonald Fraser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George MacDonald Fraser OBE (born 2 April 1925 in Carlisle, England) is an Anglo-Scots writer.
		The Flashman series is the major work of George Fraser.
		He is the father of novelist Caro Fraser.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_MacDonald_Fraser (516 words)

	George MacDonald Fraser interviews
		A son of Empire, MacDonald Fraser had served with the Gordons in India, Burma, the Middle East and North Africa, and was interested in military history.
		MacDonald Fraser was born in Scotland, and educated at the Glasgow Academy, but before that spent six years over the border, at Carlisle Grammar School, where for centuries English boys were bred to fight the Scots.
		We're talking in a new and remote American-owned hotel, and MacDonald Fraser is airing his reactionary views - about declining standards in football and rugby, the harmful effects of "counselling" and "the victim complex", the "hysteria" surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales - to the background noise of slot machines.
	members.aol.com /FSotUK/FLASHMAN/GMFinterviews.html (8544 words)

	Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser
		From this brief description Fraser has fashioned a character who managed to get himself involved in what appears to be practically all of the significant historical events between about 1840 and 1900.
		Fraser claims that Flashman wrote his memoirs in his old age, and that these were rediscovered in 1965 and that Fraser was asked to edit them.
		Fraser, too, is concerned with facts, and the other part of the series that sets it far above other such efforts is that Flashman takes part in actual historical events, playing a role that rewrites history while leaving the actual outcome unchanged.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/frasergm/flashman.htm (911 words)

	Carlisle City Council - George McDonald Fraser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Steel Bonnets is a broad survey of the Border Reivers: "the tribal leaders from their towers, the broken men and outlaws of the mosses, the ordinary peasant of the valley" who plundered, robbed, and destroyed each other's lands back and forth across the Anglo-Scottish border.
		Fraser introduces the history of the region, from ancient times and the people who lived there, focusing then specifically on the tumultuous 16th century.
		Fraser also presents the Reivers as separate from the governments that supposedly had authority over them, and the trouble London and Edinburgh had in exerting much influence in this strategically important frontier area.
	www.carlisle.gov.uk /carlislecc/main.asp?page=926 (504 words)

	Ex Libris Archives: George MacDonald Fraser
		Fraser is best known for his Flashman Papers series, which takes place in the middle of the 19th century.
		Fraser feigns that he was a real person, and carries his career forward from that time.
		Fraser embroiders the facts, obviously, but uses footnotes to clue us in on where he's telling the truth and where he's stretching it--always maintaining the illusion that he's just the editor of Flashman's memoirs.
	www.wjduquette.com /authors/gmfraser.html (496 words)

	Flashman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Fraser lifted the character from the pages of Tom Hughes' 19th century novel Tom Brown's Schooldays, using him to illustrate the world of the Victorian Age.
		Fraser's novels of Harry Flashman are well researched and documented.
		This allows Fraser to provide us a window on 19th century life and the growth of empire, albeit from the viewpoint of a scoundrel.
	www.stmoroky.com /reviews/books/flashman.htm (649 words)

	Amazon.ca: Flashman's Lady: Books: George M Fraser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Fraser outdoes himself in this adventure, arguably the second best in the series (after the incomparable Flashman, of course) finds Harry himself the victim of someone's lust and deviltry for a change--in the form of Suleiman Usman, a half-breed pirate who kidnaps Mrs.
		Fraser's witty prose and flawless research are irresistible; I finished the book in one day and wanted to start all over again.
		Fraser is as good a historian as he is a novelist, as most of my knowledge of Victorian history comes from his books.
	www.amazon.ca /Flashmans-Lady-George-M-Fraser/dp/0006513018 (1190 words)

	Big George interviews GMF
		Then 30 years ago George MacDonald Fraser wrote the first of the series, maintaining to this day he merely edits the papers, which were discovered in a Leicestershire tea-chest in 1966.
		G.M.F: Oh quite a bit, I got the idea for the last one fifteen years ago, when I was on holiday in Bad Ishl in Austria and saw what a salt mine was like.
		G.M.F: People ask for a typical example of his behaviour and I think the one that appeals to me most is in: Flashman at the Charge.
	www.biggeorge.co.uk /GMF.htm (2939 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Flashman at the Charge: Books: George MacDonald Fraser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		George MacDonald Fraser's famous Flashman series appearing for the first time in B-format with an exciting new series style, ready to please his legions of old fans and attract armies of new ones.
		MacDonald Fraser's attention to historical fact makes what happens to Flashy fit seamlessly into the true historical version of events.
		As well as being immensely gripping and realistic (MacDonald Fraser's description of the carnage wrought on the Russian cavalry by Sir Colin Campbell's 93rd Highland Regiment is truly impressive) this section of the book is very funny (if war and battles can be funny).
	www.amazon.co.uk /Flashman-Charge-George-MacDonald-Fraser/dp/0006512984 (1860 words)

	Amazon.de: Royal Flash (Flashman Papers): English Books: George MacDonald Fraser,Kati Nicholl,Rupert Penry-Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		It takes you some time into this story before you realize that Fraser has brilliantly presented a new version of the Prisoner of Zenda story (in itself a classic), but with the marvellous touch that he 'once talked about his adventures to that young feller-me-lad Hope in '92' or whenever it was i.e.
		Fraser writes effortlessly and convincingly about the days when Germany was not a united country, but consisted of many different states with different traditions and heads of state.
		Frasers Englisch ist etwas archaisch, um den Autobiographiecharakter des Buches zu unterstreichen, aber das sollte fuer einen geuebten Englischleser kein Hindernis sein, Harry Flashman bei seinen haarstraeubenden Abenteuern in Deutschland zu begleiten.
	www.amazon.de /Flashman-Papers-George-MacDonald-Fraser/dp/0007210965 (996 words)

	The Flashman series by George Macdonald Fraser
		The Flashman series of books is written by George Macdonald Fraser, and details the life of fictional Victorian soldier, Sir Harry Flashman.
		Each book has been meticulously researched by Macdonald Fraser, and includes a series of footnotes to accompany the story, providing corroborating details on Flashman's commentary, based on historical accounts.
		As always with George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman's adventures are related with verve, dash and meticulous historical detail.
	www.mykreeve.net /books/flashman (872 words)

	George MacDonald Fraser Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		The eleventh volume of Fraser's books detailing the history and adventures of world-class cad and inadvertent hero Harry Flashman consists of three short pieces which detail Harry's involvement with the maiden journey of the Orient Express, his part in a baccarat scandal in 1890, and several run-ins with his archenemy, Jack Moran (the "Tiger" of...
		In 1854, the year of the story, Flashman is serving as an army officer in the Crimea, where he leads the charge of the Light Brigade, foils a Russian invasion of India, is captured by the...
		Ever the cad, Harry engineers an escape for himself after he and his party are captured by Apaches, emerging to "help" the US government settle their issues with the Sioux, help which leads directly to the Battle of Little Bighorn.
	www.alibris.co.uk /search/books/author/George_MacDonald_Fraser (1266 words)

	George MacDonald Fraser: Black Ajax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		George MacDonald Fraser is best known for his excellent Flashman series, set in Victorian times; this book is also a historical novel but deals with the slightly earlier Regency period (Flashman's father, Buckley, figures in it).
		This he eventually did, on two occasions, but both times he lost; Fraser implies that he could have won were it not for his irresistible addiction to drink and sex.
		The actual contests are vividly described and sound truly horrific; it's easy to agree with Fraser's comment, in an epilogue, that no modern boxer would be willing or able to take part in a battle of that kind.
	www.accampbell.uklinux.net /bookreviews/r/fraser-1.html (363 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman: From the Flashman Papers, 1839-1842 at ...
		George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman: From the Flashman Papers, 1839-1842
		Fraser immerses the reader in the first person, photographic memory-style of Harry Flashman, and the results are hilarious.
		Sample Fraser prose: "He was engaged in the only work in which he was capable.
	www.epinions.com /book_mu-2281507 (305 words)

	Bookreporter.com - FLASHMAN ON THE MARCH by George MacDonald Fraser
		Sir Harry Flashman, that mid-19th century rapscallion, is at it again in FLASHMAN ON THE MARCH, a new adventure by George MacDonald Fraser.
		Fraser, who served in a Highland Regiment in Africa, India and the Middle East, is a stickler for detail, whether it's the presence of historical figures in the narrative --- such as King Theodore and Robert Cornelis Napier, who led the British forces during the Abyssinian campaign --- or using archaic language.
		Fraser also includes footnotes describing some of the more arcane references.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/1400044758.asp (468 words)

	Amazon.de: The Flashman (The Flashman Papers): English Books: George MacDonald Fraser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Fraser is obviously very informed and knowledgeable regarding the 2nd half of the 19th century.
		In this the first of the Flashman books, George M. Fraser reintroduces the world to the arch-cad first mentioned in "Tom Browns School Days".
		And over the years as I eagerly awaited more of the great cad's adventures, I discovered that Fraser was not only giving us one of the great picaresque characters of all time, but a lot of 19th century history as well.
	www.amazon.de /Flashman-Papers-George-MacDonald-Fraser/dp/0006511252 (1035 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| Flashman and the Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser
		For the first time in four years comes a new book in George MacDonald Fraser's long-running series chronicling the adventures of Sir Harry Paget Flashman.
		This time out Flashman is thwarting an attempted assassination of Austria's Emperor Franz Josef ("The Road to Charing Cross"); getting to the bottom of the Tranby Croft gaming scandal–and the Prince of Wales' involvement in it ("The Subtleties of Baccarat"); and, in the title story, impacting the Zulu war while hunting down a longtime enemy.
		George MacDonald Fraser lives on the Isle of Man.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385721080 (201 words)

	Jedi Council Forums - The Flashman Papers! by George MacDonald Fraser: Now Disc. "Royal Flash"
		Written in old age by the arch-cad himself, these personal memoirs - now arranged and edited by George MacDonald Fraser - follow Flashman's early career from his expulsion from Rugby through his service with Lord Cardigan's hussars to his ignoble participation in the historic retreat from Kabul.
		I hope Fraser gets around to Flashy in the War Between The States,where he fought for both the Union and the Confederacy.That's the One I am waiting for.
		BTW Fraser also did the screenplay for the excellent Richard Lester version of "The Three Musketeers".BTW I am referring to both "Three" and "Four" musketeers since they were filmed as one three and a half hour movie,but were split into two films at the last moment.
	boards.theforce.net /the_amphitheatre/b10382/25683746/p1/?7 (2706 words)

	Amazon.com: The Pyrates: A Swashbuckling Comic Novel by the Creator of Flashman: Books: George MacDonald Fraser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Flashman and the Dragon (Flashman) by George MacDonald Fraser
		Author George MacDonald Fraser, the accomplished British author of the FLASHMAN PAPERS and the Private McAuslan trilogy, has also toiled as a Hollywood scriptwriter.
		But, as always, Fraser's writing has me guffawing as he (writing from the vantage of the 1980s) portrays things happening in the 1600s in current terms; ie, castaway sailors in the Indian Ocean were arrested by the Burmese Coast Guard and found guilty by a Burmese court for "fishing without a license".
	www.amazon.com /Pyrates-Swashbuckling-Comic-Creator-Flashman/dp/1585748005 (1745 words)

	Amazon.com: Royal Flash (Flashman): Books: George MacDonald Fraser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Flashman and the Mountain of Light (Flashman) by George MacDonald Fraser
		While it may be true that the background of the Afghan war allowed our Harry to show off a greater variety of his bad habits in the first novel, the feast of encountering our hero for a second time was well worth the maximum five stars.
		That Fraser can take another story, and turn it around so that you would swear that the other guy is guilty of plagarism is just another piece of the Flashy legend.
	www.amazon.com /Royal-Flashman-George-MacDonald-Fraser/dp/0452261120 (1940 words)

	Group: Flashman and Fraser \| LibraryThing
		--> Description: A group for all fans of Harry Paget Flashman and of his chronicler George MacDonald Fraser, and for those interested in the history in which Flashman participated.
		Most commonly shared books (weighted): Flashman and the redskins : from the Flashman papers, 1849-5… by George MacDonald Fraser (52), Flashman's lady : from the Flashman Papers, 1842-1845 by George MacDonald Fraser (53), Flash for freedom!
		A nod to Flashy in an unlikely place
	www.librarything.com /groups/flashmanandfraser (117 words)

	eBay - macdonald fraser ..., Antiquarian Collectible, Fiction Books items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON P/B GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER
		George MacDonald Fraser Mc Auslan in Rough 1st UK 1974
		George MacDonald Fraser Flashman and the Redskins 1982 ed
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