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| | Alibris: Fraser |
 | | From bestselling biographer and historian Antonia Fraser comes a study of the legend of the Warrior Queens--from the first century A.D. Briton, Boudica, to the 20th century triumvirate of Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, and Margaret Thatcher. | | | From one of the finest biographers, the bestselling "Marie Antoinette" is a lavish and engaging portrait of one of the most recognizable women in European history. | | | The second of Fraser's books detailing the history and adventures of Harry Flashman, the bully of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS who went on to become a soldier, an inadvertent hero, and an empire-builder. |
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http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Fraser
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| | Biography |
| | George MacDonald Fraser no longer lives in the area, but the character of the people and the area is still evident in his writing. | | | Fraser is a private, modest man who does not enjoy publicity. | | | Protective of his work, he still carries out all his own research, proud to be able to say that he has personally seen most of the places he has written about and investigated the history himself. |
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http://www.defianttheatre.org/company/fletcher/book_bio.htm
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| | Skattabrain: Flashman and the Tiger |
| | Flashman and the Tiger is George MacDonald Fraser's 11th chronicle of Sir Harry Flashman, a "celebrated Victorian soldier, scoundrel, amorist, and self-confessed poltroon." Written with great wit and ingenuity, the series is presented as a succession of long-lost memoirs, which Fraser is simply editing for a modern readership. | | | This is book in the 11th Flashman series, and in it, Fraser offers a new look at the (mis)adventures of Sir Harry Flashman, a "celebrated Victorian soldier, scoundrel, amorist, and self-confessed poltroon." Unlike the previous books, it collects three unrelated stories of varied length in one volume. | | | Fraser has made such a temporal leap between books. |
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http://www.skattabrain.com/css-books-plain/0375410244.html
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| | Flashman |
| | 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. | | | Flashman, now an old man telling the story of his life, has resolved to hide nothing of his own true conduct and feelings, however damning. | | | If nothing else, the Flashman series provides an amusing and entertaining way of learning the history of many famous and curious persons and events of the Victorian Age. |
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http://www.stmoroky.com/reviews/books/flashman.htm
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| | The Hollywood History of the World |
| | George MacDonald Fraser, in this lively, knowledgeable and superbly illustrated volume, argues that, in fact, there is far more to praise than blame Hollywood for in this respect. | | | So, you know where you stand with Fraser, and anyone familiar with his playful 'Flashman' novels will also know how wide-ranging is his grasp of what he calls 'historical truth'. | | | Fraser makes clear the nature of his concern: '... |
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http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/screeningthepast/shorts/reviews/fraser.html
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| | George MacDonald Fraser interviews |
| | 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. | | | Flashman was rejected by "at least a dozen publishers", but MacDonald Fraser's wife, Kathy (a fellow journalist), quoted to him a line from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: "Boy, you don't know the riches you're standing on!" And she was right. | | | 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. |
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http://members.aol.com/FSotUK/FLASHMAN/GMFinterviews.html
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| | The Flashman series by George Macdonald Fraser |
| | As always with George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman's adventures are related with verve, dash and meticulous historical detail. | | | 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. |
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http://www.mykreeve.net/books/flashman
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| | George MacDonald Fraser: FAQ's |
| | GMF: No. As a military man he is just proud of his wiskers. | | | For those of you interested in current releases or reprints, visit Amazon Books. | | | She has actually published four books, not three as the Sunday Times said. |
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http://www.pangloss.ca/flashman/Questions.htm
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| | Flash for Freedom! (Flashman) by George MacDonald Fraser |
| | Fraser's historical accuracy is as good as ever. | | | This is the third Flashman book I've read, and it's almost as good as the first book in the series ("Flashman"), which I liked quite a lot, and it's considerably better than "Royal Flash," the second book in the series. | | | The first half (or so) of the book concerns how Flashman ends up serving unwillingly in the crew of a slaving ship (after running afoul of his despicable father-in-law). |
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http://www.internetcross.com/item/0452260892
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| | Review - Flashman and the Tiger |
| | century history and are fond of both a ripping yarn and ironic humor, you’ll adore Fraser. | | | All three of the stories reveal surprise plot twists that are a real pleasure to reconstruct. | | | If you’re not familiar with the Flashman novels (we trust you had a pleasant voyage from Alpha Centauri?), then all we can say is if you love 19 |
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http://www.peers.org/revfltig.html
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| | The Steel Bonnets - George MacDonald Fraser |
| | The details Fraser offers are often fascinating -- from the "hot trod" ("the right to recover one's property by force, and in practice to deal with the thieves out of hand") and the cold (i.e. | | | He is most famous for the books in the Flashman series, but has also written numerous other works of fiction and non-fiction. | | | Fraser introduces the history of the region -- from ancient times -- and the people who lived there, focussing then specifically on the tumultuous 16th century. |
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http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/frasergm/sbonnets.htm
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| | George MacDonald Fraser aids Flashman in his rewriting of 19th Century history and teases us with glimpses of the famous (Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe) while reminding us of the horrors of the slave trade. | | | One of the benefits of reading George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman books is that, along with top-flight entertainment, you get a thorough grounding in odd bits of historical lore. | | | Macdonald Fraser wrote a series of books following the rise, fall and sidestep of the lovable misogynist, blackguard, cheater, liar, adulterer and above all coward 19th Century Englishman named |
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http://www.angelfire.com/pa/francobrain/xf.htm
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| | WWGPro.DE Buchtipps: The Hollywood History of the World (George Macdonald Fraser) |
| | Fraser, along with "One Million Years B.C." and "Ben Hur." Fraser peppers the book throughout with his own knowledge of history without ever getting pedantic. | | | It also allows him to poniticated on all of the issues and ideas that claim his fancy. | | | One of the best & drollest history books I have read |
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http://www.wwgpro.de/books-isbn-0449904385.html
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| | The Pyrates - George MacDonald Fraser |
| | A master storyteller -- and screenwriter of The Three Musketeers -- George McDonald Fraser shows his usual high voltage mix of research and verve in this swashbuckling tale. | | | With a cast of thousands, a deliciously absurd plot and absolute historical accuracy, this page-turner is just the book for a voyage to the Caribbean. |
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http://www.longitudebooks.com/find/p/2937/mcms.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers |
| | George MacDonald Fraser has written a remarkable book in which he creates order and logic from a very complicated period and at the same time has written a book which is etremely readble. | | | If you are a student of Border history or are lucky enough to have one of the riding names, make the effort to read this book. | | | This painstaking coverage sets up the second half of the book perfectly: one hundred and forty pages that cover the history of the border chronologically through the sixteenth century. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0002727463?v=glance
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| | Ex Libris Archives: George MacDonald Fraser |
| | The books pretend to be the memoirs of one Harry Flashman. | | | It's a fascinating book, humorous and horrifying by turns. | | | Fraser is best known for his Flashman Papers series, which takes place in the middle of the 19th century. |
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http://www.wjduquette.com/authors/gmfraser.html
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| | George MacDonald Fraser: Flashman on the March |
| | It is based extensively on contemporary records, and the same is true of most of the other almost incredible events and personages in the book, including the description of Queen Masteeat and her court. | | | One is always afraid that, in a long series of books like this, there will be a flagging of energy or imagination as time goes by. | | | As in all the Flashman novels, there are appendices and historical notes, which can be included without loss of verisimilitude because Fraser is purportedly editing Flashman's memoirs. |
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http://3dwww.accampbell.uklinux.net/bookreviews/r/fraser-4.html
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| | This artikel George_MacDonald_Fraser is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License. | | | George MacKay Brown George MacKay Brown - Northern Lights: A Poet s Sources - 0719559499 | | | George Miller - Recent Revolution in Organ Building - 1112527745 |
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http://www.bookpricesearchengine.com/330365_george-mills_09312096681armedbanditsandotherstoriesiniowaspastandpresentsellcollegetextbooks.html
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| | The General Danced at Dawn by George MacDonald Fraser, 000617681X, Lowest Book Price Finder |
| | George MacDonald Fraser served in the "other ranks" of the British Army in Burma late in WWII. | | | MacDonald Fraser has a marvellous knack of depicting the army way of life in a way which is funny, and at times moving. | | | This positive slant on the book's theme, and Fraser's/MacNeill's fine sense of the ludicrous, make the volume one that I couldn't put down. |
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http://www.bookfinder4u.co.uk/book_detail/000617681X
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| | George MacDonald Fraser Bibliography |
| | George MacDonald Fraser writing about the history of the area and people near to where he was born and lived. | | | Extreamly popular book, an illustrated study of Hollywood's relationship with history, the author analyses historic film moments alongside historical facts. | | | A masterpiece of swashbuckling pirates, just what Doctor 'Captain Blood' himself would have ordered. |
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http://www.harryflashman.org/biblio.htm
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| | BookkooB: Flashman at the Charge - George MacDonald Fraser |
| | Above you will see a list of UK book stores, along with their stock and price details for Flashman at the Charge by George MacDonald Fraser. | | | View other editions of Flashman at the Charge. | | | Click on a store name to buy this book or to view further details. |
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http://www.bookkoob.co.uk/book/0330242024.htm
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| | The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard -- Arthur Conan Doyle George Macdonald Fraser |
| | The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard -- Arthur Conan Doyle George Macdonald Fraser | | | Conan Doyle's wonderful stories about the Brigadier - all of which are collected here - are as funny as they are hair-raising, and the Brigadier himself has long since found a place in the hearts of his admirers second only to that of the incomparable Holmes. | | | Click Here to tell a friend about this book |
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http://www.frontlist.com/detail/0940322730
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: Black Ajax |
| | Customers who bought books by George MacDonald Fraser also bought books by these authors: | | | I had thought that George MacDonald Fraser was going stale and that the last books in the Flashman series had been dull and one-dimensional. | | | MacDonald Fraser fully deploys his ability to create the very feel of another age in the way he has done humorously in the Flashman novels and seriously in "Mr.American". |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0006499813
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| | George MacDonald Fraser: Black Ajax |
| | 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 is an unusual and fascinating story, well worth reading even if you are not particularly interested in boxing. | | | 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. |
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http://www.accampbell.uklinux.net/bookreviews/r/fraser-1.html
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| | Book Reviews - Flashman on the March by George MacDonald Fraser |
| | The cad/hero of George MacDonald Fraser's novels is back after an 11-year hiatus for another rollicking adventure that only Flashman can handle in his own inimitable style. | | | In disguise, Flashman must deal with sexy and lustful African women, Amazons who would torture him and feed him to lions, ever-present danger, and daring escapes while taking as much as he believes he's entitled to. | | | In Flashman on the March, the 12th installment of the Flashman Papers, Sir Harry Flashman, V.C. is sent in 1868 to Abyssinia is advance of General Napier's mission to rescue British citizens held by the evil King Theodore. |
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http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/flashman_on_the_march
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma |
| | George Macdonald Fraser has written an utterly gripping and unforgettable memoir of the war in Burma, where he served with a company of men mainly from Cumberland. | | | "This is a book as good as anything Fraser has written...decorated with the beautifully-observed dialogue of which he is a master...A moving and penetrating contribution to the literature of the Burma campaign"- Max Hastings, Daily Telegraph | | | Fraser also loved his mates and the times he spent with them. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0002726874
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| | Flashman On the March (Flashman Papers, book 12) by George MacDonald Fraser |
| | See all available second hand copies of this book at: Abebooks UK or Abebooks US | | | All book covers copyright by their respective publishers and artists | | | Celebrated Victorian bounder, cad, and lecher, Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., returns to play his (reluctant) part in the Abyssinian War of 1868 in the long-awaited twelfth installment of the critically acclaimed Flashman Papers. |
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http://www.ffbooks.co.uk/n27/n138836.htm
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