He worked as a journalist & served in the British army in World War II. He as well wrote many screenplays. He was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1999.

He is best known for the Flashman series. This occurs as series of historical novels supposedly written per fictional character, Harry Flashman (originally created by Thomas Hughes in his book ''Tom Brown's School Days). A books come presented when "packets" of memoirs written per nonagenarian Flashman, shopping back in his times as a hero of the British army during a 19th century. For the books published in that series, watch Flashman.

His more books include:

Quartered Safe Out On this button'', the memoir of the creator's lives as an marcher in a Border Regiment in the period of the Burma Campaign of World War II The "Dand MacNeill" or even "McAuslan" stories, an indirect continuation of Quartered Safe Out On this button. In essence the humourous fictionalized memoir of the creator's lives as an officer around the Gordon Highlanders in North Africa and Scotland soon after Globe War II, these are composed of terzetto short story compilations (a bit of of the stories were originally bylined "Dand MacNeill)": A General Danced at Dawn (1970) McAuslan in the Rough out (1974) A Sheik & a Dustbin (1986) A Steel Bonnets, the history of the Border Reivers of the Anglo-Scottish Border. A Hollywood History of the Globe: From either A single Million Years B.C. to Apocalypse Today. A book discusses how else Hollywood deals by owning history. An overview & critique of many roughly historical films made by American and British companies. It concludes that a tandard of historical analysis inside virtually all pic is far better than of these may believe. A text is illustrated by numerous comparative images of numbers from either history & a actors world health organization portrayed the babies inside film. Within numbers of lawsuits a similarities come extremely striking. A Pyrates, the tongue-within-bantering novel incorporating all the conceivable buccaneer film plots into one. Black Ajax, the novel all about the 19th century nigrify gladiator inside England. (When around Mr. Our contries, this novel is too attached to the Flashman series - around this example Sir Harry Flashman's father plays the bit part.) Mr. Western, the novel all about the mysterious Our contries around England, including his dealings by owning General Flashman Candlemass Road, a short novel all about the Border Reivers of the 16th century ''Weak's in at Guidepost'' (2002), the memoir of the creator's times writing inside Hollywood, interspersed with a bit of like bitingly rants against political correctitude & recently Labour.

He wrote or even co-wrote a screenplays for: The Three Musketeers (1973) A 4 Musketeers (1974) Royal Flash (1975, adapted from his novel) "Crossed Swords(US)" / A Prince & a Pauper(UK)" (1978) Octopussy (1983) Red Sonja (1985) The Return of the Musketeers (1989)