Flashman At The Charge

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Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's 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. Celebrated Victorian bounder cad & lecher Sir Harry Flashman V.C. returns to play his (reluctant) part in the charge of the Light Brigade in this of the critically acclaimed Flashman Papers. As the British cavalry prepared to launch themselves against the Russian guns at Balaclava Harry Flashman was petrified. But the Crimea was only the beginning: beyond lay the snowbound wastes of the great Russian slave empire torture & death headlong escapes from relentless enemies savage tribal hordes to the right of him passionate females to the left of him... Then finally that unknown but desperate war on the roof of the world when India was the prize & there was nothing to stop the armed might of Imperial Russia but the wavering sabre & terrified ingenuity of old Flashman himself.