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#George mcdonald frazer professional
I think it’s fair to say that you get a fair number of mutton heads among the professional military. GMF: Of course, a great many of them were. George MacDonald Fraser of the Gordon Highlanders RLC: I’ve noticed, to return to Flashman, most of the wiser are the non-commissioned, whereas the officers many times seem to be either pompous or foolish, or both.Ģ1 year-old Lt. I was greatly delighted that the new design for The General Danced at Dawn they’ve adopted as their Christmas card. They have become one regiment, simply called the Highlanders. The Gordons ceased to be and went in with the previously amalgamated Camerons and Seaforths. The final amalgamation took place last year.
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Are most of the people in them real characters and you changed the names to protect the guilty, as it were? RLC: Moving along to your books on the Gordon Highlanders that you based on your own After chatting for a while, where I told him of my own writing efforts, he kindly offered to allow me to use his name when I contacted his agent.? This was before many revisions of my book and it was not print-ready.? Of course she declined to represent me, but did send a nice personal note.? I wonder what she thought of him recommending a hack-writer like I was then to contact her.? George MacDonald Fraser passed away in 2008.? He was a polite and gracious man. Fraser one more time, in 1999.? He was doing a book signing of Flashman and the Tiger at a local bookstore. Fraser for being too accurate in his historical fiction! I met with Mr. I went to my first writers seminar, on the Isle of Man, a few years later.? One wanna-be writer criticized Mr. His knowledge of history shown in his books, gained without a formal degree, was impressive. This is the second part of my 1995 interview with George MacDonald Fraser on the Isle of Man. George MacDonald Fraser at the Sefton Hotel, Isle of Man, 1995