George MacDonald Fraser
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Born in Carlisle to Scottish parents and schooled at Carlisle Grammar School and Glasgow Academy, he later joined the Border Regiment, earned a commission with the Gordon Highlanders, and served in Burma, the Middle East and North Africa before leaving the army in 1947. After a stint as a trainee reporter and later deputy editor of the Glasgow Herald, he turned to fiction, creating the anti-hero F…
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