The General Danced At Dawn (The McAuslan Stories #1) - George MacDonald Fraser

Category: Historical Fiction, Humor, Military
Language: English
Keywords: British Army Military Fiction Scotland Scottish Regiment Short Stories The McAuslan Stories

Written by George MacDonald Fraser
Read by David Monteath
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

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.

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!

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.

First published: 1970
HarperCollins, Jun. 2021
6 hours and 9 minutes