George MacDonald Fraser Flashman, Flash for Freedom, Flashman in the Great Game Hardback Book

For George MacDonald Fraser the bully Flashman was easily the most interesting character in Tom Browns Schooldays, and imaginative speculation as to what might have happened to him after his expulsion from Rugby School for drunkenness ended in 12 volumes of memoirs in which Sir Harry Paget Flashman selfconfessed scoundrel, liar, cheat, thief, coward and, oh yes, a toady romps his way through decades of nineteenthcentury history in a swashbuckling and often hilarious series of military and amorous adventures. In Flashman the youthful hero, armed with a commission in the 11th Dragoons, is shipped to India, woos and wins the beautiful Elspeth, and reluctantly takes part in the first AngloAfghan War, honing a remarkable talent for selfpreservation. Flash for Freedom! finds him crewing on an African slave ship, hiding in a New Orleans whorehouse and fortuitously running into rising young American politician Abraham Lincoln... | George MacDonald Fraser Flashman, Flash for Freedom, Flashman in the Great Game Hardback Book