Works George MacDonald Fraser

1 works

1.1 flashman novels
1.2 short stories
1.3 history
1.4 memoirs
1.5 other novels
1.6 screenplays

1.6.1 unproduced screenplays


1.7 select articles
1.8 radio

works
flashman novels

the flashman series constitute fraser s major works. there 12 books in series:

short stories

the dand macneill or mcauslan stories semi-autobiographical series of short stories based on author s experiences in gordon highlanders, in north africa , scotland, after world war ii. of stories bylined dand macneill , play on regimental motto bydand, meaning standfast:

the general danced @ dawn (1970)
mcauslan in rough (1974)
the sheikh , dustbin (1988)
the complete mcauslan (harpercollins 2000) (all stories in 3 volumes, new introduction.)

history

the steel bonnets (1971), history of border reivers of anglo-scottish border.
the hollywood history of world: 1 million years b.c. apocalypse (1988, revised 1996) book discusses how hollywood deals history. concludes standard of historical analysis in movies far better 1 might imagine. text illustrated comparative images of figures history , actors portrayed them in film.

memoirs

quartered safe out here (1992), memoir of experiences infantryman in border regiment during burma campaign of world war ii
the light s on @ signpost (2002), memoir of author s days writing in hollywood, interspersed criticism of political correctness , new labour.

other novels

mr american (1980), novel mysterious american in england.
the pyrates (1983), tongue-in-cheek novel incorporating possible buccaneer film plots one.
black ajax (1997), novel tom molineaux, 19th-century black prizefighter in england. (as in mr american, novel connected flashman series—in case sir harry flashman s father plays minor role.)
the candlemass road (1993), short novel border reivers of 16th century.
the reavers (2007), comic novel of border reivers, loosely based on candlemass road, in style of earlier novel pyrates.
captain in calico (2015), novel posthumously issued.

screenplays

fraser wrote or co-wrote screenplays for:

the 3 musketeers (1973)
the 4 musketeers (1974)
royal flash (1975, adapted novel)
crossed swords (us) or prince , pauper (uk) (1977)
force 10 navarone (uncredited) (1978)
octopussy (1983)
red sonja (1985)
the return of musketeers (1989)
some script-doctor work on ashanti (1979) , superman ii (1980)

unproduced screenplays

fraser wrote following scripts never filmed:

adaptation of general danced @ dawn commissioned in 1972
prince of thieves alexandre dumas version of robin hood story
bulldog drummond – adaptation of novels
hannah – adaptation of novel life of helena rubenstein director jack clayton
thirteen against bank – true story man leaned how beat bank @ monte carlo
adaptation of william tell story set against background of battle of mortgarten
the lone ranger director john landis, circa 1990
the ice people – adaptation of novel discovery of man , woman ancient civilisation trapped in ice
berry , co based on story dornford yates director lindsay anderson
stortebekker director wolfgang petersen medieval german pirate klaus störtebeker
quentin durward novel sir walter scott
stillwell, biopic of joe stillwell director martin ritt @ mgm (early 1980s)
adaptation of james clavell novel tai-pan, intended star steve mcqueen (not used when movie made in 1986) – sequel
adaptation of twenty thousand leagues under sea dino de laurentiis

select articles

long before decay of lying , chicago tribune (1963) [chicago, ill] 9 nov 1969: p6.

radio

fraser adapted flash freedom , flashman @ charge bbc radio plays. fraser staunch critic of political correctness , enlarged upon views on matter (and others) on bbc radio show, desert island discs.