Most Popular Books by George Macdonald Fraser

George MacDonald Fraser—beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels—offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the war''s final year, and he offers a first-hand glimpse at the camaraderie, danger, and satisfactions of service. A substantial Epilogue, occasioned by the 50th anniversary of VJ-Day in 1995, adds poignancy to a volume that eminent military historian John Keegan described as "one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War."

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.

The second title in a trilogy from the internationally bestselling author of The Flashman series. Private McAuslan continues his disorderly advance, losing, soiling or destroying his equipment. Whether map-reading his erratic way through the Sahara by night or confronting Arab rioters, McAuslan''s talent for catastrophe is constant.

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.

From humorist George MacDonald Fraser comes the funniest stories of an inept soldier, Private McAuslan, now collected in a single volume. The most disastrous soldier to ever serve in the British Army, Private McAuslan, J., the dirtiest soldier in the world (alias the tartan Caliban, or the Highland Division''s answer to the Peking man), first demonstrated his unfitness for service in "The General Danced at Dawn." He continued his disorderly advance, losing, soiling, and destroying his equipment, through the pages of "McAuslan in the Rough." The final story, "The Sheikh and the Dustbin," pursues the career of the great incompetent as he shambles across North Africa and Scotland, swinging his right arm in time with his right leg and tripping over his untied laces. Whatever he does and wherever he goes, Private McAuslan''s admirers know him as court-martial defendant, ghost catcher, star-crossed lover, and golf-caddie extraordinaire. Now, all of George MacDonald Fraser''s inimitable McAuslan stories are collected together in one glorious volume, for readers to gasp, giggle, and gawk at McAuslan''s misadventures. Whether map reading his erratic way through the Sahara by night, or confronting Arab rioters, McAuslan''s talent for catastrophe is guaranteed. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Der 17-jährige Harry Flashman wird in der Zeit des Viktorianischen Empire aus der Rugby School geworfen. Er startet eine erstaunliche Karriere beim Militär, die unverdient steil nach oben geht, denn er weiss: Bestimmte menschliche Fehler wie Dummheit, Arroganz und Engstirnigkeit sind militärische Vorzüge. Harry Flashman darf Elspeth, "das grösste Flittchen, das je eine Matratze abgenutzt hat" heiraten (ausserdem ist ihr Vater reich), doch wird er zu seinem Entsetzen nach Afghanistan versetzt. Beim Rückzug der Briten und verbündeten Inder aus Kabul überleben nur zwei - Harry ist einer davon. Harry macht sich natürlich aus dem Staub und schlägt sich selbst durch. Das endet in höchsten militärischen Auszeichnungen als "Held von Dschalalabad" und bei den Afghanen wird er als "Bloody Lance" geachtet (aufgrund eines weiteren Missverständnisses). George MacDonald Fraser wurde vor allem berühmt durch die Serie historischer Romane, den Flashman Manuskripten, deren 11 Bände von 1969 bis 2005 erschienen. Dabei handelt es sich um die fiktiven Memoiren von Sir Harry Flashman, einem hoch dekorierten britischen Offizier im Ruhestand, der auf seine Abenteuer zwischen 1840 und 1890 zurückblickt, die ihn unter anderem mit Bismarck, General Custer, Lola Montez und vielen anderen zusammengeführt hatte. Geboren wurde Fraser 1925, wurde Soldat und kämpfte in Burma. Danach wurde er Journalist, später Schriftsteller und Drehbuchautor (unter anderen "Die drei Musketiere" und den James-Bond-Film "Octopussy") in Grossbritannien und Kanada. Er starb 2008.

Flashman records his reluctant part in an imperial campaign against Sikh Khalsa. He describes the campaign as being the shortest, bloodiest and strangest that he can think of in his whole career.

It''s 1868 and Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., arch-cad, amorist, cold-hearted soldier, and reluctant hero, is back in the 12th book in Fraser''s ever-beloved Flashman Papers series.

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown''s schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents - horsemanship, facility with foreign languages and fornication. A reluctant military hero, Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th century, despite trying his utmost to escape them all. What was Harry Flashman doing on the slopes of Little Bighorn, caught between the gallant remnant of Custer''s 7th Cavalry and the attack of Sitting Bull''s braves? He was trying to get out of the line of fire and escape yet again with his life (if not his honour) intact. Here is the legendary and authentic West of Mangas Colorado''s Apaches, of Kit Carson, Custer and Spotted Tail, of Crazy Horse and the Deadwood stage, gunfighters and gamblers, scoundrels and Indian belles, enthusiastic widows and mysterious adventuresses. The West as it really was: terrifying!

Flashman lusts after a clergyman''s wife, smuggles opium to Hong Kong, couples with an Amazonian woman river pirate, grovels before a ruthless warlord, and becomes the sexual plaything of the most evil woman in the world.

Repackaged To Tie-In With Hardback Publication Of The Reavers And To Appeal To A New Generation Of George Macdonald Fraser Fans, The Pyrates Is A Swashbuckling Romp Of A Novel. The Pyrates Is All The Swashbucklers That Ever Were, Rolled Into One Great Technicoloured Pantomime Tall Ships And Desert Islands, Impossibly Gallant Adventurers And Glamorous Heroines, Buried Treasure And Black Spots, Devilish Dons And Ghastly Dungeons, Plots, Duels, Escapes, Savage Rituals, Tender Romance And Steaming Passion, All To The Accompaniment Of Ringing Steel, Thunderous Broadsides, Sweeping Film Music, And The Sound Of Cursing Extras Falling In The Water And Exchanging Period Dialogue. Even Hollywood Buccaneers Were Never Like This.

Elizabethan England, And A Dastardly Spanish Plot To Take Over The Throne Is Uncovered. It''S Up To Agent Archie Noble To Save Queen And Country In This Saucy And Swashbuckling Romp From The Bestselling Author Of The Flashman Papers And The Pyrates. Spoiled, Arrogant, Filthy Rich, And Breathtakingly Beautiful, The Young Lady Godiva Dacre Is Exiled From The Court Of Good Queen Bess (Who Can''T Abide Red-Haired Competition) To Her Lonely Estate In Distant Cumberland, Where She Looks Forward To Bullying The Peasantry And Getting Her Own Imperious Way. Little Does She Guess That The Turbulent Scottish Border Is The Last Place For An Elizabethan Heiress, Beset By Ruthless Reivers (Many Of Them Unshaven), Blackmailing Ruffians, Fiendish Spanish Plotters Intent On Regime Change And Turning Merrie England Into A Ghastly European Union Province. And No One To Rely On But Her Half-Witted Blonde School Chum, A Rugged English Superman With A Knack For Disaster, And A Dashing Highwayman Who Looks Like Errol Flynn But Has A Glasgow Accent. To Say Nothing Of Warlocks, Impersonators, Taxi-Drivers Riding Brooms, Burlesque Artists, The Drunkest Man In Scotland, And Several Quite Normal Characters Oh, Yes, Gossips, It''S All Happening In The Reavers, A Moral Tale Obviously Conceived In Some Kind Of Fit By Flashman Author George Macdonald Fraser & Well, He''S Getting On, And Was Bound To Crack Eventually. He Admits (Nay, Insists) That It''S A Crazy Story For Readers Who Love Fun For Its Own Sake.