Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Browns schooldays now with a Victoria Cross has three main talents
- horsemanship
...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Browns schooldays now with a Victoria Cross has three main talents -- horsemanship facility with foreign languages & fornication. A reluctant military hero Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th century despite trying his utmost to escape them all. If only Flashman had got on with his dinner & ignored the handkerchief dropped by a flirtatious hussy in a Calcutta hotel! Well American history would have been different a disastrous civil war might have been avoided & Flashman himself would have been spared one of the most hair-raising adventures of his misspent life. If only! But alas the arch-rotter of the Victorian age could never resist the lure of a pretty foot. This latest extract of the Flashman Papers soon finds Flashman careering towards the little Virginian town of Harpers Ferry where John Brown & his gang of rugged fanatics were to fire the first shot in the great war against slavery. ...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays now with a Victoria Cross has three main talents
- horsemanship
...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Browns schooldays now with a Victoria Cross has three main talents -- horsemanship facility with foreign languages & fornication. A reluctant military hero Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th century despite trying his utmost to escape them all. With the mighty Sikh Khalsa the finest army ever seen in Asia poised to invade India & sweep Britannias ill-guarded empire into the sea every able-bodied man was needed to defend the frontier -- & one at least had his answer ready when the Call of Duty came: Ill swim in blood first! Alas though for poor Flashman there was no avoiding the terrors of secret service in the debauched & intrigue-ridden Court of the Punjab the attentions of its beautiful nymphomaniac Maharani (not that he minded that really) the horrors of its torture chambers or the baleful influence of the Mountain of Light. ...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Browns schooldays now with a Victoria Cross has three main talents -- horsemanship facility with foreign languages & fornication. A reluctant military hero Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th century despite trying his utmost to escape them all. What was Harry Flashman doing on the slopes of Little Bighorn caught between the gallant remnant of Custers 7th Cavalry & the attack of Sitting Bulls braves? He was trying to get out of the line of fire & escape yet again with his life (if not his honour) intact. Here is the legendary & authentic West of Mangas Colorados Apaches of Kit Carson Custer & Spotted Tail of Crazy Horse & the Deadwood stage gunfighters & gamblers scoundrels & Indian belles enthusiastic widows & mysterious adventuresses. The West as it really was: terrifying! ...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays now with a Victoria Cross has three main talents
- horsemanship
...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays now with a Victoria Cross has three main talents
- horsemanship
...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Browns schooldays now with a Victoria Cross has three main talents -- horsemanship facility with foreign languages & fornication. A reluctant military hero Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th century despite trying his utmost to escape them all. Many have marvelled at General Napiers daring 1868 expedition through the treacherous peaks & bottomless chasms of Abyssinia to rescue a small group of British citizens held captive by the mad tyrant Emperor Theodore. But the vital role of Sir Harry Flashman V.C. in the success of this campaign has hitherto gone unrecorded. Flashmans undeserved reputation for heroism renders him the British Armys candidate of choice when it comes to skulking behind enemy lines in Ali Baba attire. After all who but the great amorist could contemplate navigating a land populated by hostile tribes & the loveliest (and most savage) women in Africa from leather-clad nymphs with a penchant for torture to a voluptuous barbarian queen with a reputation for throwing disobliging guests to her pet lions? ...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Browns schooldays now with a Victoria Cross has three main talents
- horsemanship
...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Browns schooldays now with a Victoria Cross has three main talents -- horsemanship facility with foreign languages & fornication. A reluctant military hero Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th century despite trying his utmost to escape them all. When our hero Flashman accepts an invitation from his old enemy Tom Brown of Rugby to join in a friendly cricket match he does not suspect that he is letting himself in for the most desperate game of his scandalous career. What follows is a deadly struggle that sees him scampering from the hallowed wicket of Lords to the jungle lairs of Borneo pirates; from a Newgate hanging to the torture pits of Madagascar & from Chinatowns vice dens to slavery in the palace of the female Caligula herself Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar. Had he known what lay ahead Flashman would never have taken up cricket seriously. ...