Loss of a great writer...George MacDonald Fraser, inventor of Flashman, died on January 2nd, aged 82

"These stories will be completely truthful; I am breaking the habit of eighty years. Why shouldn't I?

When a man is as old as I am, and knows himself for what he is, he doesn't care much. I'm not ashamed, you see; never was -. So I can look at the picture above my desk, of the young officer; tall and handsome as I was in those days, and say that it is the portrait of a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat. since many of the stories are discreditable to me, you can rest assured they are true....."

Brigadier General Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC, KCB KCIE

George MacDonald Fraser.

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http://www.harryflashman.org/home.htm

http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10492913