A splendid book, both scholarly and readable, accurate and alive. Mr.Fraser has hitherto been known as a novelist. This is a book anyhistorian can envy. Hugh…

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Repackaged to tie-in with hardback publication of ‘The Reavers’ and to appeal to a new generation of George MacDonald Fraser fans, ‘The Pyrates’ is a swashbuckling romp of a novel.

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