Harry Flashman, the antihero of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS, relates his adventures in America during the Gold Rush. Ever the cad, Harry engineers an escape for himself after he and his party are captured by Apaches, emerging to "help" the US government settle their issues with the Sioux, help which leads directly to the Battle of Little Bighorn. A ...
George MacDonald Fraser's famous Flashman series appearing for the first time in B-format with an exciting new series style, ready to please his legions of old fans and attract armies of new ones. The Flashman Papers 1856--58, Volume Five What caused the Indian Mutiny? The greased cartridge, religious fanaticism, political blundering, yes -- but ...
The eleventh volume of Fraser's books detailing the history and adventures of world-class cad and inadvertent hero Harry Flashman consists of three short pieces which detail Harry's involvement with the maiden journey of the Orient Express, his part in a baccarat scandal in 1890, and several run-ins with his archenemy, Jack Moran (the "Tiger" of ...
It's 1868 and Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., arch-cad, amorist, cold-hearted soldier, and reluctant hero, is back in the 12th book in Fraser's ever-beloved Flashman Papers series.
The tenth novel in the Flashman series. Flashman's efforts land him in one of the tightest corners of his inglorious but not unexciting career. Contributing to igniting the US Civil War, he's saved by a dusky beauty. He can be relied on to live down his reputation in bed and battle.
A history of the border wars fought between Scotland and England from ancient times until the Act of Union that united the two countries in the 18th century. Fraser takes pains to rebuff many of the romantic myths that have grown around the subject through the years, emphasizing the brutality of the border raids and the cowardly and distinctly ...
The second of Fraser's books detailing the history and adventures of Harry Flashman, the bully of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS who went on to become a soldier, an inadvertent hero, and an empire-builder. Here Flashman, as an officer in the Horse Guards, becomes unintentionally involved in the politics of colonial Africa and emerges, though luck and want ...
The fourth installment of the "memoirs" of Harry Flashman, the cowardly bounder who was first introduced to the world as the bully of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS. In 1854, the year of the story, Flashman is serving as an army officer in the Crimea, where he leads the charge of the Light Brigade, foils a Russian invasion of India, is captured by the ...
The ninth chapter in the memoirs of Sir Harry Flashman, VC, this describes an almost forgotten imperial campaign and the freaks and perfidies in its waging. It also tells the story of a fabulous jewel and an extraordinary quartet - an Indian queen, a slave girl and two mercenary adventurers.
The sixth of Fraser's books detailing the history and adventures of Harry Flashman, the bully of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS who went on to become a soldier, an inadvertent hero, and an empire-builder. This installment follows Harry as he traverses the high seas in search of Elspeth, the light of his life, who has been kidnapped by pirates. Along the ...
The story of what happened to Flashman, the caddish bully of "Tom Brown's Schooldays", after he was expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. The author has written several books about Flashman, and books of short stories, including "The General Danced at Dawn".
George MacDonald Fraser's famous Flashman series appearing for the first time in B-format with an exciting new series style, ready to please his legions of old fans and attract armies of new ones. The Flashman Papers 1860 Volume Eight 'When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman' Abraham Lincoln Unfortunately, in China in 1860, a lot of people ...
The eleventh volume of Fraser's books detailing the history and adventures of world-class cad and inadvertent hero Harry Flashman consists of three short pieces which detail Harry's involvement with the maiden journey of the Orient Express, his part in a baccarat scandal in 1890, and several run-ins with his archenemy, Jack Moran (the "Tiger" of ...
George MacDonald Fraser--beloved for his series of "Flashman" historical novels--offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the war's final year, and he offers a first-hand glimpse at the camaraderie, danger, and satisfactions of service. A substantial Epilogue, ...
The third in a series of fictional memoirs by Harry Flashman, the Victorian scoundrel who got his start as the bully of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOLDAYS. This installment follows Flashman on his usual shady exploits, though this time through the United States, where he becomes party to a financial swindle in New Orleans, and Africa, where he becomes a ...
In Volume II of the Flashman Papers, Flashman tangles with femme fatale Lola Montez and the dastardly Otto Von Bismarck in a battle of wits which will decide the destiny of a continent. Did Flashman's adventures in the Duchy of Strackenz provide the inspiration for The Prisoner of Zenda? The similarities are certainly there as Flash Harry becomes ...
No one knew who Mark Franklin was when he disembarked at Liverpool in 1909 with a copy of Shakespeare's works, an old Mexican charro saddle, and two Remingtons in his battered luggage. He was just another American, tall and softly-spoken. Even General Flashman never guessed the whole truth.
A game of cricket lands Flashman in thrall to a mad barbarian queen in Madagascar in Volume VI of the Flashman Papers. Flashman accepts an invitation from his old enemy, Tom Brown of Rugby, to join in a friendly cricket match, little suspecting that he is letting himself in for the most desperate game of his scandalous career. What follows is a ...
A book of short stories from the author of the books about Flashman. George Macdonald Fraser is also the author of two other books of short stories, "McAuslan in the Rough" and "The Sheikh and the Dustbin" and a history book, "The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers".
The first instalment of the Flashman Papers sees the fag-roasting rotter from Tom Brown's Schooldays commence his military career as a reluctant secret agent in Afghanistan. Expelled from Rugby for drunkenness, and none too welcome at home after seducing his father's mistress, the young Flashman embarks on a military career with Lord Cardigan's ...
The eighth of Fraser's books detailing the history and adventures of Harry Flashman, the bully of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS who went on to become a soldier, an inadvertent hero, and an empire-builder. In this installment, Harry is dispatched to China to report on the Taiping Rebellion. Despite pausing numerous times to pursue "involvements" with ...
A former American slave from Virginia, Tom Molineaux, is a successful boxer in England at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. A series of narrators--Molineaux's trainer, contemporary boxing journalists, his childhood girlfriend--tell the protagonist's story. An exacting account of 19th-century English manners and slang sets the stage for the ...
Using compelling examples of successful African-Americans and basing his methods on the seven principles of Kwanzaa, an African concept of community spirit, Fraser explains to readers how to master the powerful tool of cultural networking.
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. The Pyrates is all the swashbucklers that ever were, rolled into one great Technicoloured pantomime -- tall ships and desert islands, impossibly gallant adventurers ...
From the 13th century to the middle of the 16th, outlaws and " border lords" reigned supreme on the contentious frontier between England and Scotland. Feud and terror, raid and reprisal, were the ordinary stuff of life, and power was held by the notorious border reivers: raiders and freebooters, plunderers and rustlers who robbed, murdered, and ...
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