War and Shadows. Memoirs of General Sir David Fraser

by General Sir David Fraser (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.25

  General Sir David Fraser has had two careers: as a distinguished British soldier and as a leading military biographer. His childhood passed in grand houses in London and Scotland, but he was the son of anything but conventional parents, who Fraser sketches out in this book in all their bizarre and entertaining individuality. He then goes on to provide an account of becoming a soldier, the life of his regiment and his role as an officer in World War II. After the war he rose through the hierarchy (the acuteness of his mind earned him the nickname Fraser the Razor ) until he became GOC of the British Army of the Rhine and Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff.

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  Paperback
  2003

  $6.58

  General Sir David Fraser has enjoyed distinguished parallel careers as a soldier, novelist and historian. His memoirs provide an insight into literary, intellectual and military life in 20th century Britain. His perspective, as a serving soldier and writer, set him at odds with the prevailing hearty/aesthete dichotomy of that time and may yet serve to force us to revise our picture of the mid-20th century army as anti-intellectual, hidebound and narrow-minded.