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George MacDonald Fraser, OBE FRSL (2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was an English-born author of Scottish descent, who wrote historical novels, non-fiction books and several screenplays. He is best known for a series of works that featured the character Flashman.
Fraser was born to Scottish parents in Carlisle, England on 2 April 1925. His father was a doctor and his mother a nurse. It was his father who passed on to Fraser his love of reading, and a passion for his Scottish heritage.
Fraser was educated at Carlisle Grammar School and Glasgow Academy; he later described himself as a poor student due to "sheer laziness". This meant that he was unable to follow his father's wishes and study medicine.
In 1943, during World War II, he enlisted in The Border Regiment. He was assigned to 9 Section, B Company, 9th Battalion (Bn) in the Indian 17th Infantry Division, known as the Black Cat Division from the flashes worn by the troops. He fought in Burma as an infantryman against the Japanese in 1945; in the Meiktila campaign and the drive on Rangoon. Fraser was made a lance corporal four times, but was reduced to private three times for minor offences, one of them losing a tea urn. He finally kept the rank and held it until he went to the War Office Selection Board (WOSB) for a commission. He detailed his active service with the Border Regiment in his autobiographical book, Quartered Safe Out Here.
After completion of his OCTU (Officer Cadet Training Unit) course, Fraser was granted a commission into the Gordon Highlanders. He served with them in the Middle East and North Africa immediately after the war, notably in Tripoli. In 1947 Fraser decided against remaining with the army and took up his demobilisation. He has written semi-autobiographical stories and anecdotes of his time with the Gordon Highlanders in the “McAuslan” series.
In 1966 Fraser got the idea to turn Harry Flashman, a fictional coward and bully originally created by Thomas Hughes in Tom Brown's School Days into a hero and wrote a novel around his exploits. The book proved popular and led to a series of further novels, presented as packets of memoirs written by the nonagenarian Flashman, who looks back on his days as a hero of the British Army during the 19th century. The series is notable for the accuracy of the historical settings and praise from critics. P.G. Wodehouse said of Flashman, "If ever there was a time when I felt that 'watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet' stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman."
Fraser also fictionalised his post-war military experience as the adventures of the rather unassuming "Dand" MacNeill in a Scottish regiment of the line. This series of short stories is noted for the strong and strange characters surrounding McNeill, including an aged and prototypical Colonel, a Wodehousian Adjutant, an active and dedicated pipe sergeant, a die-hard Algerian revolutionary, various blackguards and spivs, and, most memorably, Private John McAuslan, the dirtiest soldier in the world. Featuring games of golf, scrapes and run-ins with the police both military and civil, the transfer of the die-hard to the French (of all people), and McAuslan's various disasters, these works form a picture of the British army in the period immediately after World War II.
He is the father of novelist Caro Fraser. Husband to Kathleen, three children - Simon, Caroline and Nicholas. Grandfather to eight.
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Flashman Papers Series
George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman (read by David Case)
George MacDonald Fraser - Royal Flash (read by Timothy West)
George MacDonald Fraser - Flash For Freedom! (read by Timothy West)
George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman At The Charge (read by David Case)
George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman In The Great Game (read by Timothy West)
George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman's Lady (read by David Case)
George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman And The Redskins (read by David Case)
George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman And The Dragon (read by David Case)
George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman And The Mountain Of Light (read by David Case)
George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman And The Angel Of The Lord (read by Timothy West)
George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman And The Tiger (read by David Case)
George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman On The March (read by Jonathan Keeble)
Non-Series
George MacDonald Fraser - The Pyrates (read by Nigel Lambert)
George MacDonald Fraser - Mr. American (read by David Case)
George MacDonald Fraser - Black Ajax (read by Stephen Thorne)
George MacDonald Fraser - The Reavers (read by Bill Wallis)
George MacDonald Fraser - The Candlemass Road (read by George MacDonald Fraser)
George MacDonald Fraser - Quartered Safe Out Here (read by David Case)
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Flashman Papers Series
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