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The Flashman Papers

Flash for Freedom

Flash for Freedom


by George MacDonald Fraser

  • LITERATURE
  • 1989
  • PAPER
  • 287 PAGES

In this fifth installment in the rollicking series, set largely in New Orleans, our self-serving, cowardly Victorian hero meets up with Abraham Lincoln (who saves his neck), runs a slave plantation, cheats at cards, escapes on a slave ship and helps out in Underground Railroad. (USS372, $16.00)

Flashman

Flashman


by George MacDonald Fraser

  • LITERATURE
  • 1986
  • PAPER
  • 252 PAGES

Flashman gets himself mixed up in Britain's First Afghan War, notably the humiliating (and in this version, hilarious) retreat from Kabul. (CAS83, $15.00)

Flashman and the Angel of the Lord

Flashman and the Angel of the Lord


by George MacDonald Fraser

  • LITERATURE
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 394 PAGES

George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman finds himself at the center of extraordinary events in this 10th installment in the entertaining, meticulously researched series. Flashy is kidnapped in Cape Town (talk about reluctant) and soon with John Brown on his fateful 1859 raid at Harper's Ferry. (USS371, $16.00)

Flashman and the Dragon

Flashman and the Dragon


by George MacDonald Fraser

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

The eighth entry in Fraser's popular series of 19th-century adventures starring Harry Flashman, the womanizing rogue and international troublemaker, set in 1860s China. In this installment, our reluctant hero is hoodwinked into joining the Teiping Rebellion, participates in the Seige of Nanking and ends up as a plaything of the Dowager Empress at the Summer Palace. (CHN116, $15.00)

Flashman and the Mountain of Light

Flashman and the Mountain of Light


by George MacDonald Fraser

  • LITERATURE
  • 1992
  • PAPER
  • 394 PAGES

In this 9th installment in the rollicking, meticulously researched series the sardonic Flashman is off to the Punjab for more lechery, cowardice and aggrandizement in the service of Her Majesty. (IDA291, $15.00)

Flashman and the Redskins

Flashman and the Redskins


by George MacDonald Fraser

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 480 PAGES

Picking up where Flashman For Freedom left off, our disreputable hero finds himself on a wagon train en route to San Francisco. Naturally, he meets Kit Carson, gets captured by Apaches and ends up the center of the Battle of Little Big Horn, where he may have been the one who shot Custer (but by accident). (USW464, $16.00)

Flashman and the Tiger

Flashman and the Tiger


by George MacDonald Fraser

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES

This 11th installment in The Flashman Papers (purportedly retrieved and not written by George Macdonald Fraser, a nice conceit), consists of three short adventures, which find our hero cavorting with Bismarck and Emperor Franz-Josef and the future Edward VI. (WAF58, $16.00)

Flashman at the Charge

Flashman at the Charge


by George MacDonald Fraser

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

In this installment in the rollicking, masterfully researched series of historical novels, our disreputable hero finds himself in Crimea -- and a participant in the Charge of the Light Brigade. (CCS29, $15.00)

Flashman in the Great Game

Flashman in the Great Game


by George MacDonald Fraser

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 336 PAGES

What caused the Sepoy Mutiny, a pivotal moment in the Raj? How about Harry Flashman, the reluctant, much-decorated coward, cad and womanizer at the center of George MacDonald Fraser's wildly entertaining, irreverent series of historical novels. (CAS120, $15.00)

Flashman on the March

Flashman on the March


by George MacDonald Fraser

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 378 PAGES

In this 12th outing in the series, our reluctant hero finds himself at the center of General Robert Napier's Abyssinian campaign. It's another excellent opportunity to comment on the folly of the British Empire, a rollicking entertainment and painless dose of history. (ETP37, $15.00)

Flashman's Lady

Flashman's Lady


by George MacDonald Fraser

  • LITERATURE
  • 1988
  • PAPER
  • 330 PAGES

Another volume in the wildly entertaining, historically accurate Flashman series, this one set in Queen Ranavalona's Madagascar. (MAD34, $16.00)

Royal Flash

Royal Flash


by George MacDonald Fraser

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 394 PAGES

In this second installment of the adventures of the insufferable, self-serving and altogether entertaining Harry Flashman, the young man-about-town encounters Count Otto Von Bismarck and Lola Montez. (EUR194, $15.00)

 

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