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From: History Today
Date: 20000501
Author:Fraser, George MacDonald

Flashman author George MacDonald Fraser explains how `history disguised as fiction' has been his inspiration and is also his aim.

`YOUR EYES ARE blinded by the sight of gold, man!' Thus Sir Daniel Darnley Darnley (or was it Darnby?), the Laughing Pirate, duelling in an Aztec treasure-house, despatching some unfortunate Spanish villain with a lightning rapier thrust -- and awakening my interest in history for the first time.

I was about eight years old and until I encountered Sir Daniel in a D.C. Thomson `tuppenny blood' my acquaintance with the past had been limited to ...

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