The Complete McAuslan

The Complete McAuslan

All the Hilarious McAuslan Stories in One Volume


George MacDonald Fraser's hilarious stories of the most disastrous soldier in the British Army are collected together for the first time in one volume. Private McAuslan, J., the Dirtiest Soldier in the World (alias the Tartan Caliban, or the Highland Division's answer to the Pekin Man) first demonstrated his unfitness for service in The General Danced at Dawn. He continued his disorderly advance, losing, soiling or destroying his equipment, through the pages of McAuslan in the Rough. The final volume, The Sheikh and the Dustbin, pursues the career of the great incompetent as he shambles across North African and Scotland, swinging his right arm in time with his right leg and tripping over his untied laces. His admirers know him as court-martial defendant, ghost-catcher, star-crossed lover and golf caddie extraordinary. Whether map-reading his erratic way through the Sahara by night or confronting Arab rioters, McAuslan's talent for catastrophe is guaranteed. Now, the inimitable McAuslan stories are collected together in one glorious volume.

George MacDonald Fraser

The author of the famous Flashman series and the Private McAuslan stories, George MacDonald Fraser worked on newspapers in Britain and Canada. In addition to his novels he has also written numerous films, most notably The Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers, and the James Bond film Octopussy. He is also the author of Quartered Safe Out Here about his World War II service in Burma, and The Steel Bonnets and The Candlemass Road about the Anglo-Scottish wars. He passed away at the age of eighty-two in 2008.

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The Candlemass Road
George MacDonald Fraser, George MacDonald Fraser
“An afternoon’s reading that’ll stick in the memory for long afterwards. Hooray for George MacDonald Fraser!”—The...



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The Steel Bonnets
The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers
George MacDonald Fraser, George MacDonald Fraser
"A splendid book, both scholarly and readable, accurate and alive. Mr. Fraser has hitherto been known as a novelist. This is a book any historian can envy."—Hugh...



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Quartered Safe Out Here
A Harrowing Tale of World War II
George MacDonald Fraser, George MacDonald Fraser
"A moving and penetrating contribution to the literature of the Burma campaign."—Max Hastings, Daily...











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