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- ↑ Stanley Reynolds, "George MacDonald Fraser: He created Harry Flashman, tormentor of Tom Brown turned comical anti-hero", The Guardian, 4 January 2008 accessed 23 November 2012
- ↑ John Keegan, The Second World War (London, Penguin Books, 2005), p. 79.
- ↑ David Mamet, "So near so noir", The Guardian 9 November 2001 accessed 23 November 2012
- ↑ Rudyard Kipling. "Gunga Din". Poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
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