- Fiction, war & military, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Biography, Motion picture industry
From the author of the ever-popular Flashman novels, a collection of film-world reminiscences and trenchant thoughts on Cool Britannia, New Labour and other abominations.
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Classical in form, cool, nostalgic and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- George MacDonald Fraser
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 348
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, HarperCollins, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780008337285
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George MacDonald Fraser(2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was a Scottish author and screenwriter. He is best known for a series of works that featured the character Flashman. Over the course of his career he wrote eleven novels and one short-story collection in the Flashman series of novels, as well as non-fiction, short stories, novels and screenplays—including those for the James Bond film Octopussy and an adaptation of his own novel Royal Flash.
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