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THE LIGHT’S ON
AT SIGNPOST
GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER
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Source ISBN: 9780007136476
Ebook Edition © JUNE 2012 ISBN: 9780007325634 Version: 2016-11-24
CONTENTS
“One for All, and All for Fun”
Fourth Afghan
Law for Sale?
With the Tudors in Hungary
The Westminster Farce
Orcs and Goblins
Gene Hackman Should Have Blown up Vesuvius
The Europe Fiasco
Act of Settlement
“Not a Bad Bismarck, Was I?”
The Day of the Pygmies
A Writer, a Soldier, a Comedian, a Football Hero, a Beverly Hillbilly
The Truth that Dare not Speak its Name
To Scotland, with Love
“Phlam with Cheese” for the Stars
Crime and Punishment
No One Did it Better
“Thirty Years in Hollywood and You can still Learn Something New”
Pictures of Russia
The Defeat of the British Army
Special Relationship
Everywhere but Hong Kong
How to Encourage Race Hatred
Not According to Lady Bracknell