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The history makers

BOOK REVIEW: Academic fact or period fiction? Sean Bell argues that history can and should be lively in all its printed forms

SOCIOPATHS have their little pleasures, just like everyone else. A personal favourite of mine can be found in the prologue to Flashman And The Redskins by the late George MacDonald Fraser, soldier, writer and, until he got a better offer, former Herald journalist.