The General Danced At Dawn - George MacDonald Fraser

Category: Humor
Language: EnglishKeywords: MacAuslan Book 1 Military Memoirs
Written by George MacDonald Fraser
Read by David Monteath
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged
The General Danced at Dawn
The McAuslan Stories, Book 1
By: George MacDonald Fraser
Narrated by: David Monteath
Series: The McAuslan Stories, Book 1
Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 11-06-2021
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Private McAuslan was ‘the biggest walking disaster to hit the army’. Loosely based on his own experiences in a Scottish regiment and written with rare humour, a sense of the ludicrous and real affection for soldiering, the first volume of George MacDonald Fraser’s McAuslan trilogy now finally comes to life on audio.
Private McAuslan, J.—the Dirtiest Soldier in the World (alias the Tartan Caliban)—demonstrates his unfitness for military service in this first volume of stories of life in a Scottish regiment. Unkempt, ungainly and unwashed, civilian listeners may regard him with shocked disbelief. But generations of ex-servicemen have hailed him with delight as a familiar —because every old soldier can remember a McAuslan!
McAuslan first shambled into public view - manfully swinging his right arm in time with his right leg—in George MacDonald Fraser’s The General Danced at Dawn in 1970. Greeted with laughter and great affection (and spawning two sequels and a TV adaptation), these hilarious memoirs of life in a Highland regiment after the last war capture the exploits and misadventures of life in the British Army.
Based on MacDonald Fraser’s own experiences in the Border Regiment and the Gordon Highlanders, which took him to India, Africa and the Middle East, these stories demonstrate the celebrated author of the swashbuckling Flashman series at his hilarious best.
©2021 George MacDonald Fraser (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
The General Danced at Dawn
The McAuslan Stories, Book 1
By: George MacDonald Fraser
Narrated by: David Monteath
Series: The McAuslan Stories, Book 1
Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 11-06-2021
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins

Private McAuslan was ‘the biggest walking disaster to hit the army’. Loosely based on his own experiences in a Scottish regiment and written with rare humour, a sense of the ludicrous and real affection for soldiering, the first volume of George MacDonald Fraser’s McAuslan trilogy now finally comes to life on audio.

Private McAuslan, J.—the Dirtiest Soldier in the World (alias the Tartan Caliban)—demonstrates his unfitness for military service in this first volume of stories of life in a Scottish regiment. Unkempt, ungainly and unwashed, civilian listeners may regard him with shocked disbelief. But generations of ex-servicemen have hailed him with delight as a familiar —because every old soldier can remember a McAuslan!

McAuslan first shambled into public view - manfully swinging his right arm in time with his right leg—in George MacDonald Fraser’s The General Danced at Dawn in 1970. Greeted with laughter and great affection (and spawning two sequels and a TV adaptation), these hilarious memoirs of life in a Highland regiment after the last war capture the exploits and misadventures of life in the British Army.

Based on MacDonald Fraser’s own experiences in the Border Regiment and the Gordon Highlanders, which took him to India, Africa and the Middle East, these stories demonstrate the celebrated author of the swashbuckling Flashman series at his hilarious best.

©2021 George MacDonald Fraser (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Limited