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George MacDonald Fraser has been a newspaperman, soldier, novelist ("Flashman"), and screenwriter.

In a career spanning 30 years and encompassing films such as "Octopussy" and "The Three Musketeers" he worked with some of the Hollywood greats (Steve McQueen, Schwarzenegger, Fellini, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston).

Here his reminiscences of those years are interspersed with an "angry old man's" view of Britain today, featuring blistering attacks on New Labour, Brussels and Cool Britannia.