Sheikh and the Dustbin

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, this is the third volume of George MacDonald Fraser’s McAuslan trilogy.Private McAuslan’s admirers already know him as court-martial defendant, ghost-catcher, star-crossed lover an...