Flashman On The March

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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?