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. Expelled from Rugby for drunkenness & none too welcome at home after seducing his fathers mistress the young Flashman embarks on a military career with Lord Cardigans Hussars. En route to Afghanistan our hero hones his skills as a soldier duellist imposter coward & amorist (mastering all 97 ways of Hindu love-making during a brief sojourn in Calcutta) before being pressed into reluctant service as a secret agent. His Afghan adventures culminate in a starring role in that great historic disaster the Retreat from Kabul. ...

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. When Sir Harry Flashman V.C. the celebrated Victorian soldier scoundrel amorist & self-confessed poltroons memoirs first came to light thirty years ago the world was finally illuminated about what became of the celebrated cowardly bully from Tom Browns Schooldays. Now in addition to the other famous adventures of Flash Harry contained in the Flashman Papers come three new episodes in the career of this eminent if disreputable adventurer. The title piece touches on two of the most spectacular military actions of the century & sees Flashman pitted against one of the greatest villains of the day & observing with his usual jaundiced eye two of its most famous heroes. ...

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
...