Flashman And The Angel Of The Lord

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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. 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.