Product Description: After 25 years of chronicling the military misadventures of Flashman, the Victorian arch-cad, George MacDonald Fraser has temporarily deserted fiction to write this, his own personal account of the Burma War. In this book he describes life and death in Nine Section, a small group of hard-bitten and possibly eccentric Cumbrian borderers with whom the author, then 19, served in the last great land campaign of World War II...read more

Product Description: The acclaimed definitive history of the outlaws and "Border lords" who reigned on the contentious frontier between England and Scotland for three hundred years. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)