Wars and Shadows: Memoirs of General Sir David Fraser - Softcover

Fraser, David

9780141008592: Wars and Shadows: Memoirs of General Sir David Fraser

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141008598 ISBN 13: 9780141008592

Publisher: Penguin, 2003

One of the last significant memoirs of the Second World War, seen through the eyes of a young Grenadier Guardsman. David Fraser has had two careers: as one of Britain's most distinguished soldiers and then as one of our leading military biographers.His childhood passed in grand houses in London and Scotland, but he was the son of anything but conventional parents, who are sketched out in this book in all their bizarre and entertaining individuality. Fraser's accounts of becoming a soldier, the life of his regiment, and his role as a young officer, are brilliantly written classics of their kind. After the War he rose through the hierarchy until he became GOC the British Army of the Rhine and Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff.

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

David Fraser's previous books include the authorised biography of ALANBROOKE, his best-selling KNIGHT'S CROSS: A LIFE OF FIELD MARSHAL ERWIN ROMMEL and most recently FREDERICK THE GREAT, now regarded as the standard life in English, as well as sevennovels.

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