The Complete McAuslan (Paperback, New Ed)

Historical fiction is littered with swashbuckling heroes - often 'rough diamonds' but nevertheless noble and triumphant - Private J McAuslan therefore is a refreshingly comic and slapdash everyman-antihero in a landscape of virtuosity. 'Wan o'nature's blunders', he was first seen in North Africa (tripping over his own feet, never washing, letting his rifle rust) 'serving' his Highland Battalion after WWII, his complete shambling adventures as seen through the eyes of his platoon-commander are collected here. (Kirkus UK)

George MacDonald Fraser's hilarious stories of the most disastrous soldier in the British Army - collected together for the first time in one volume. Private McAuslan, J., the Dirtiest Soldier in the Word (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, for the first time, the inimitable McAuslan stories are collected together in one glorious volume.

General

Imprint:	HarperCollinsPublishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2000
Authors:	George MacDonald Fraser
Dimensions:	198 x 131 x 37mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	591
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-00-651371-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
LSN:	0-00-651371-9
Barcode:	9780006513711

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