He recounted the campaign in his memoir Quartered Safe Out Here (1992). The author of the famous 'Flashman Papers', George MacDonald Fraser's (1925-2008) working life began in World War II when he enlisted in The Border Regiment, serving in the Burma Campaign. His life as a soldier, journalist and then professional writer was full of incident. George MacDonald Fraser was a doctor son’s from Carlisle who was educated at the local grammar school.

To enquire about purchasing the collection in its entirety please contact MacDonald Fraser OBE All books will include a posthumous George MacDonald Fraser bookplate. After this date items can be reserved on a first come first served basis. The books will be available for sale from Monday 2 June until Thursday 31 July 2014. Electronic and printed catalogues will be issued on Tuesday 20 May. George MacDonald Fraser’s books will be available to view in Heywood Hill’s basement antiquarian room from Tuesday 20 May until Saturday 31 May (excluding Saturday 24 May to Monday 26 May). Every aspect of MacDonald Fraser’s life and career as a professional writer is represented, from the authors who fired his imagination as a boy - Arthur Mee, R M Ballantyne, Rafael Sabatini, his own copy of Tom Brown’s Schooldays - to the histories and memoirs from which he drew out so memorably the essence of British imperial life, good and bad. Since his death in 2008 his books have lain undisturbed at his home on the Isle of Man. MacDonald Fraser was a customer of Heywood Hill for many years. George MacDonald Fraser’s personal collection of over 2500 books includes the historical source material and fictional influences for all his work, not least the incomparable Flashman novels.

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