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From: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
Date: 20080107
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Author George MacDonald Fraser, who has died aged 82, was the creator of the much-loved Flashman series.

Born in Carlisle in 1925, Mr Fraser served with the Army in India and Burma during the Second World War, and in the Middle East after the war. He worked as a journalist in the UK and Canada for more than 20 years before turning to fiction.

Flashman, published in 1969, imagined Harry Flashman, the bullying schoolboy of 19th century classic Tom Brown's Schooldays, grown up to become a soldier in the Army.

In the book and 11 sequels, the roguish Flashman fought, drank and womanised his way ...

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