Dear Joe and all George MadDonald Fraser was mentioned in the Anchorage Daily News today www.adn.com search on his name. Aside from the great work he did on the "Steel Bonnets", he was also rather famous as the author of the "Flashman" series of historical yarns. "Flashman" published in 1969, introduced an enduring antihero: the roguish Harry Flashman, who fought, drank and womanized his way across the British Empire, Europe and the U.S., playing a role in great historical moments. / Anchorage Daily News thurs Jan 3, 2008 George obviously had an Armstrong in mind when he wrote the Flashman series...!! (:>)) Happy New Year y'all John D A Little SoWest of North Joe wrote: > Dear All, > > Today, January 3rd at mid day was news of the death of > George MacDonald Fraser. > > Surely all Armstrongs know of his definitive work, > "The Steel Bonnets" the tale of the Reivers of the Anglo-Scots > Borderland. > > George was 82 years old, a passionate opponent of the metric > system which was imposed upon us by Eurocrats. > > My other favourite is one of the last things he wrote, his own > biography. George served through the infamous Burma campaign > fighting them in the jungle. He ended his autobiography at the moment > when he left his mates as they drove the Japanese army out of Burma. > That was to go to an officer training course. > > What a man! > > Joe Armstrong. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARMSTRONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >