Dancing with the Star Wars via the Royal Canadian Air Farce:

Via thebitterguy

George MacDonald Fraser 1926-2007

He was the author of the Harry Flashman books. A series of humourous historical novels based on a notorious character from "Tom Brown's School Days" who went on to become a hero, winner of the Victoria Cross, and witness to many historical events, all of them neatly footnoted. My favourite works by him are "Mr. American" about an American gunslinger who tries to flee his present and discover his past in England and the movies "The Three Musketeers" and "The Four Musketeers" from the seventies.

Fraser himself lived an interesting life serving in the Border Regiment in the Far East during World War Two being promoted four times to lance corporal each time and in the Gordon Highlanders as a lieutenant after the war, as a journalist, a screenwriter as well as writing his novels and nonfiction. In 1999 he received the Order of the British Empire for his work.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3126821.ece

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_MacDonald_Fraser