Quote Originally Posted by A_Hay! View Post
Todd, based on some comments in another place, I downloaded The Steel Bonnets" by GMF two nights ago and have been reading it. I'm about halfway through it. Particularly interesting for me since I once had a chance to see some of the border lands including around Carlisle, Dumfries, and Hawick.

Sorry, no knowledge on the DVD though.

Tom
Tom,

If you like The Steel Bonnets, you'll love the late George MacDonald Fraser's other works:

The Candlemass Road: GMF's fictional account of the Reivers.
Quartered Safe Out Here GMF's memoirs of his time as a ranker with the Border Regiment in Burma during the Second World War. In my opinion, of the best memoirs of a soldier ever written.
MacAuslan Entire: a series of short stories based on GMF's time as an officer with the Gordons immediately after WWII, centering around "the dirtiest soldier in the world", Pte. MacAuslan.

And, of course, one must not forget Flashman!

T.