1. George MacDonald Fraser - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia George MacDonald Fraser, OBE (2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) 1 was a British author of both historical novels and nonfiction books, as well as several http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_MacDonald_Fraser

George MacDonald Fraser From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search George MacDonald Fraser Born 2 April Carlisle England Died 2 January Isle of Man Occupation Author Flashman novels George MacDonald Fraser OBE 2 April 2 January was a British author of both historical novels and non-fiction books, as well as several screenplays Contents Early life and military career Post-war Family Works ... edit Early life and military career Born to Scottish parents in Carlisle England , Fraser grew up and was educated in Scotland. In 1943, during World War II , he enlisted in the The Border Regiment . He was assigned to 9 Section, B Company, 9th Battalion (Bn) The Border Regiment in the Indian 17th Infantry Division in India, known as The Black Cat Division for the flashes worn by the troops. 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

2. The Elegant Variation: OBIT: GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER George MacDonald Fraser, author of the deeply politically incorrect but hilarious Flashman series (and the slightly less wellknown but equally funny The http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2008/01/obit-george-mac.html

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3. George MacDonald Fraser George MacDonald Fraser was born in Carlisle, England in 1925, and educated at Carlisle Grammar School and Glasgow Academy. He served as an infantryman in http://ns.netmcr.com/~ambro/fraser.htm

GEORGE MacDONALD FRASER George MacDonald Fraser was born in Carlisle, England in 1925, and educated at Carlisle Grammar School and Glasgow Academy. He served as an infantryman in Burma and with the Gordon Highlander Regiment in India, Africa, and the Middle East. From 1947 to 1969 he worked as a journalist in England, Scotland and Canada. From 1970, he has been a full-time writer. He now lives with his family on the Isle of Man.

4. George MacDonald Fraser - Britannica Concise Search for George MacDonald Fraser at Encyclopædia Britannica Online for all this plus dictionary definitions, magazine articles, and more. http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9364862/George-MacDonald-Fraser

document.writeln(AAMB1); Fraser, George MacDonald Britannica Concise Print Article Email Article Cite Article George MacDonald Fraser born 1925 British novelist. He trained as a journalist and served as deputy editor of the Glasgow Herald Flashman (1969), led him to become a full-time writer. In it and subsequent novels filled with historical colour and detail, the bully of Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays is his hero. Recent novels include Black Ajax (1998) and Flashman and the Tiger (2000). He has also written screenplays. document.writeln(AAMB2); More on "George MacDonald Fraser" from the 32 Volume railroad - In its earliest years Canadian railroading was influenced by British rail practice, but after a decade of experience with North American economic and geographic realities, American practice began a fairly rapid rise to dominance that has remained to the present. The first transborder line was completed between Portland, Maine, and Montreal in 1852; it was known as the Atlantic and St. Lawrence ... Canadian literature - Like the poets and novelists, Canadian dramatists in their quest for a myth of origins have often turned to historical incidents. The earliest forms of dramatic writing, Charles Mair's Tecumseh (1886) and Sarah Anne Curzon's Laura Secord, the Heroine of 1812 (1887), both based on the War of 1812, were in verse. In the 1920s and '30s Merrill Denison, Gwen Pharis Ringwood, and Herman Voaden ...

5. PersonaNonData: George Macdonald Fraser George Macdonald Fraser. Tom Brown s School Days is a famous book set in the context of Tom s experience at an English boys boarding school. http://personanondata.blogspot.com/2008/01/george-macdonald-fraser.html

skip to main skip to sidebar PersonaNonData Publishing industry news, trends and strategies important to publishers and information providers. Monday, January 07, 2008 George Macdonald Fraser Tom Brown's School Days is a famous book set in the context of Tom's experience at an English boys boarding school. In that book, a boy named Flashman makes a minor appearance as a bully and cad. Forward to 1968 and Flashman makes his literary debut as a self-penned chronicler of some of the epic events of English and World history during the 19th century. Flashman is everywhere from the Crimea to the American Civil War, apparently saving the day and playing a material role in the events in question. At the same time he manages to bed over 400 women (while also maintaining a marriage to a nymphomaniac), is routinely captured, tortured (in some unlikely ways) and escapes. Through complete incompetence and cowardice he always manages to end up looking like the hero. The entire series of books was based on G M Fraser finding a collection of memoirs at a house sale and it written in the first person narrated by Flashman. They are all hilarious and historically accurate but with respect to Flashman entirely fiction. Fraser made up the entire story of Flashman's travels through British History but what a ride it was. Each book included a sizable addendum that noted the significance of the events, places and people mentioned in each episode. As someone interested in history, these sections were almost as interesting as the fictional work that preceded.

6. George MacDonald Fraser - Writer - Obituary - New York Times george macdonald fraser’s popular novels about the archrogue Harry Flashman followed their hero as he swashbuckled, drank and womanized his way through http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/arts/03fraser.html

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7. George MacDonald Fraser A bibliography of george macdonald fraser s books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/george-macdonald-fraser/

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8. NPR: 'Flashman' Author George MacDonald Fraser Dies george macdonald fraser, the British author of the Flashman series, has died. He was 82. fraser took a character — a bullying schoolboy — from the 19th http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17822428

9. A Very British Dude: George MacDonald Fraser, 1925 - 2008 george macdonald fraser Soldier, journalist, writer, historian near wrecker of James Bond and inspiration for thousands of public school bullies. http://brackenworld.blogspot.com/2008/01/george-macdonald-fraser-1925-2008.html

skip to main skip to sidebar Thursday, January 03, 2008 George MacDonald Fraser, 1925 - 2008 I'm not sure Harry Hutton catches the genius of the man with his obituary , and the Telegraph's isn't up yet so I'll have to do my best. He will be chiefly remembered for the Glorious romp through the Victorian age which was the Flashman novels. 12 of 'em, which had the bewhiskered anti-hero shagging his bawdy way round the empire. Though he was a coward, flashman looked the part and managed to get covered in glory at each juncture. Like some commentators, I thought the first book , given to me by a friend at 13 was a real document. It inspired me to read " the Signal Catastrophe " and I was most put out to find no mention of a "Harry Flashman, VC". I then researched the Victoria Cross and, finding no reference to him there, or the Army list, at last, as I was half way into the second book did I realise that it was a beautifully researched and hilarious work of fiction. Like Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey Maturin cycle of novels , they are based on a real historical figure , though Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FCRS would not be flattered by the comparison to the arch cad and womaniser. Though he gets a short cameo in "

10. George MacDonald Fraser Biography george macdonald fraser Biography. AutoBiography Quarted safe out here McAuslan. The life and career of. http://www.harryflashman.org/GMF.htm

George MacDonald Fraser. O.B.E. Born Carlisle, England 1926 Servered in the Border Regiment in India and Burma as part of 17th Indian Division 1943 and Gordon Highlanders in the Middle East after the war. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant. Worked as a journalist in Canada and Britain. Served as Deputy Editor for the Glasgow Herald First published work. Flashman 1969. Since then publishing over twenty best sellers. Screen plays include the 'Three Musketeers' 1973 and James Bond's ' Octopussy A Cumbrian by birth, despite his Scottish name and hertidge, Fraser grew up near the historic city of Carlisle , in Cumbria Northern England near to the border of Scotland in the 1926. Carlisle is a historic city, many famous historical figures are featured in the area's structure and development. The Borderlands - stretching from the South of Scotland and the Eden Valley across to the Cheviot Hills in Northumbria has a bloody and interesting history. 'Hadrian's wall' the Roman wall; their defenses against the wild north, starts not far from Carlisle. Mary Queen of Scots (1542-87) - was incarcerated at Carlisle Castle - and the heroic Bonnie Prince Charlie (1720-88) who led the Jacobite rebellion (1745-46) declared his father King from Carlisle Cross. The author Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) married his French born wife in Carlisle Cathedral and Henry VIII ordered the construction of the City's twin bastions of defence in the drum towers of the Citadel which can still be seen. It is not difficult to see how Fraser grew up with an interest in history.

11. George MacDonald Fraser | Economist.com george macdonald fraser, inventor of Flashman, died on January 2nd, aged 82. http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10492913

12. Power Line: George MacDonald Fraser, RIP george macdonald fraser was preeminently the author of the series of twelve historical novels featuring the Victorian blackguard Harry Flashman. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/01/019448.php

Power Line News Forum About Us Print ... Main January 4, 2008 George MacDonald Fraser, RIP George MacDonald Fraser was preeminently the author of the series of twelve historical novels featuring the Victorian blackguard Harry Flashman. Fraser plucked Flashman from the pages of Tom Brown's Schooldays where he is the bully who is expelled after he is found in a drunken stupor. Fraser pretended to be the editor of a massive body of recently discovered papers recounting Flashman's martial and amatory exploits from the late 1830's to the early years of the twentieth century. The Flashman papers were supposedly hidden in a tea chest in 1915 by Flashman's ashamed family where, in an astounding variation of the Boswell papers , they laid undiscovered for 50 years. Beginning with Flashman in 1969, Fraser presented himself as the editor of the Flashman papers, turning his meticulous historical research into a series of very funny comic novels of monumental politcal incorrectness. Fraser died this week at the age of 82. The Telegraph obituary tells the story of the Flashman novels. In a companion piece, Harry Mount explains that

13. George MacDonald Fraser - Telegraph george macdonald fraser, who died on Wednesday aged 82, revived in a longrunning series of novels the career of one of fiction s most infamous characters, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/04/db0401.xml

14. George MacDonald Fraser Writer Octopussy. Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, News, Awards, Agent, Fan Sites. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292129/

Now Playing Movie/TV News My Movies DVD New Releases ... search All Titles TV Episodes My Movies Names Companies Keywords Characters Quotes Bios Plots more tips SHOP GEORGE... DVD VHS CD IMDb George MacDonald Fraser Quicklinks categorized by type by year by ratings by votes by TV series awards titles for sale by genre by keyword power search credited with biography other works publicity contact miscellaneous Top Links biography by votes awards news articles ... message board Filmographies categorized by type by year by ratings ... tv schedule Biographical biography other works publicity contact ... message board External Links official sites miscellaneous photographs sound clips ... video clips George MacDonald Fraser advertisement photos board add contact details Photos Add photo(s) and resume with IMDb Resume Services Overview Date of Birth: 2 April Carlisle, Cumberland, England, UK more Date of Death: 2 January , Strang, Isle of Man (cancer) more Trivia: He served as an infantryman with the 17th Indian Division of XlVth Army... more Awards: 1 win more Alternate Names: George Macdonald Fraser Filmography Writer: The Return of the Musketeers (1989) (screenplay) (as George Macdonald Fraser) ... aka Regreso de los mosqueteros, El (Spain)

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16. George MacDonald Fraser, 82, Author Of 'Flashman' Novels - International Herald george macdonald fraser, 82, author of Flashman novels. http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/03/arts/obits.php

Culture iht.com Business Culture ... Search OBITUARY By Margalit Fox Published: January 3, 2008 document.writeln(''); E-Mail Article Listen to Article Printer-Friendly 3-Column Format Translate Share Article Text Size George MacDonald Fraser, a British writer whose popular novels about the arch-rogue Harry Flashman followed their hero as he galloped, swashbuckled, drank and womanized his way through many of the signal events of the 19th century, died Wednesday on the Isle of Man. He was 82 and had made his home there in recent years. The cause was cancer, said Vivienne Schuster, his British literary agent. Over nearly four decades, Fraser produced a dozen rollicking picaresques centering on Flashman. The novels purport to be installments in a multivolume "memoir," known collectively as the Flashman Papers, in which the hero details his prodigious exploits in battle, with the bottle, and in bed. In the process, Fraser cheerfully punctured the enduring ideal of a long-vanished era in which men were men, tea was strong and the sun never set on the British Empire. The Flashman Papers include, among other titles, "Flashman" (World Publishing, 1969); "Flashman in the Great Game" (Knopf, 1975); and, most recently, "Flashman on the March" (Knopf, 2005).

17. Fraser, George MacDonald | Authors | Guardian Unlimited Books As well as providing a fine assortment of treats, george macdonald fraser is a marvellous reporter and a firstrate historical novelist. http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,-234,00.html

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18. Newsvine - Author George MacDonald Fraser Dies george macdonald fraser, author of the Flashman series of historical adventure yarns, died Wednesday, his publisher said. He was 82. http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/02/1199670-author-george-macdonald-fraser-

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19. BBC NEWS | UK | Author Of Flashman Stories Dies Novelist george macdonald fraser, author of the Flashman series of books, Griff Rhys Jones and george macdonald fraser in a 1999 BBC documentary http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7169047.stm

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20. George MacDonald Fraser: Times Obituary -Times Online george macdonald fraser brought delight to a generation of readers throughout the Englishspeaking world with his Flashman books. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article3126821.ece

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