The Complete McAuslan
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George MacDonald Fraser's hilarious stories of the most disastrous soldier in the British Army - collected together for the first time in one volume.
Questo autore è rinomato per la sua serie di romanzi storici, presentati come le presunte memorie di Harry Flashman. Flashman, originariamente concepito come un codardo e un bullo, rievoca i suoi giorni di avventure come eroe dell'esercito britannico nel XIX secolo. I romanzi sono celebrati per la loro meticolosa accuratezza storica e una voce narrativa distintiva che ha affascinato la critica letteraria. Queste opere offrono una prospettiva unica sulla storia attraverso un protagonista le cui motivazioni sono spesso tutt'altro che eroiche.






George MacDonald Fraser's hilarious stories of the most disastrous soldier in the British Army - collected together for the first time in one volume.
`There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John Keegan
The fourth volume of memoirs in which Harry Flashman confronts destiny with Lord Cardigan and the Light Brigade. Part of the FLASHMAN series, comprising FLASHMAN, ROYAL FLASH and FLASH FOR FREEDOM, which explores the successful though scandalous later career of the bully in TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS.
From the Flashman Papers, 1845-46 - First Time in Paperback
Harry Flashman is a reluctant military hero, surviving key roles in defining military campaigns of the 1800s, mostly through his talent for fornication. Alas he cannot avoid the terrors of secret service in the debauched and 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 huge cursed Mountain of Light diamond.
Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.
Celebrated Victorian bounder, cad, and lecher, Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., returns to play his (reluctant) part in the Abyssinian War of 1868 inthe long-awaited twelfth installment of the critically acclaimed Flashman Papers.
Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.
"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."–P.G. Wodehouse The first novel in the Flashman series Fraser revives Flashman, a caddish bully from Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes, and relates Flashman’s adventures after he is expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. Flashy enlists in the Eleventh Light Dragoons and is promptly sent to India and Afghanistan, where despite his consistently cowardly behavior he always manages to come out on top. Flashman is an incorrigible anti-hero for the ages. This humorous adventure book will appeal to fans of historical fiction, military fiction, and British history as well as to fans of Clive Cussler, James Bond, and The Three Musketeers.
Repackaged to tie-in with hardback publication of The Reavers' and to appeal to a new generation of George MacDonald Fraser fans, The Pyrates' is a swashbuckling romp of a novel.