Flashman on the March

george macdonald fraser

It’s 1868 and Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., arch-cad, amorist, cold-headed soldier, and reluctant hero, is back! Fleeing a chain of vengeful pursuers that includes Mexican bandits, the French Foreign Legion, and the relatives of an infatuated Austrian beauty, Flashy is desperate for somewhere to take cover. So desperate, in fact, that he embarks on a perilous secret intelligence-gathering mission to help free a group of Britons being held captive by a tyrannical Abyssinian king. Along the way, of course, are nightmare castles, brigands, massacres, rebellions, orgies, and the loveliest and most lethal women in Africa, all of which will test the limits of the great bounder’s talents for knavery, amorous intrigue, and survival.

Flashman on the March— the twelfth book in George MacDonald Fraser’s ever-beloved, always scandalous Flashman Papers series--is Flashman and Fraser at their best.

Genres historical fictionfictionadventurehumorhistoricalcomedybritish literatureafricaethiopiawar

352 pages, Paperback

First published August 1,2005

Series

Flashman Papers

This edition

Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Published: November 14, 2006 by Anchor
ISBN: 9781400096466
ASIN: 1400096464
Language: English

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Harry Paget Flashman

Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE (1822-1915) is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser (1925-2008), but based on the character "Flashman" in Tom Browns Schooldays (1857), a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes (1822–1896...

About the author

george macdonald fraser

George MacDonald Fraser is best known for his Flashman series of historical novels, purportedly written by Harry Flashman, a fictional coward and bully originally created by Thomas Hughes in Tom Brown's School Days. The novels are presented as "packets" of memoirs written by the nonagenarian Flashman, who looks back on his days as a hero of the British Army during the 19th century. The series begins with Flashman, and is notable for the accuracy of the historical settings and praise from critics. P.G. Wodehouse said of Flashman, “If ever there was a time when I felt that ‘watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet' stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman.”