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The Complete McAuslan: All the Hilarious McAuslan Stories in One Volume
The Complete McAuslan All the Hilarious McAuslan Stories in One Volume
Author: George MacDonald Fraser
George MacDonald Fraser's hilarious stories of the most disastrous soldier in the British Army are collected together for the first time in one volume. Private McAuslan, J., the Dirtiest Soldier in the World (alias the Tartan Caliban, or the Highland Division's answer to the Pekin Man) first demonstrated his unfitness for service in The Gene...  more ». 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, the inimitable McAuslan stories are collected together in one glorious volume.
ISBN-13: 9781602396562
ISBN-10: 1602396566
Publication Date: 8/1/2009
Pages: 608
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3.5 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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Another in George McDonald Fraser's various collections of characters.

The young subaltern (Lieutenant)arrives in his new battalion and has to deal with all the normal vicissitudes common to all new officers.These vicissitudes ARE the characters. Drawn in detail, the author doesn't claim to understand them; he simply presents them as they were. Are they real? Maybe not. But I can point at characters from my own career that come up to the same insane levels as his. If they're real, they're well reported. if they're total fiction, they're very well drawn.

The humor is droll and often understated. For anyone who's ever served in the military, this collection will be a reprise of at least some portion of that service.

Very entertaining.
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