FLASHMAN: FROM THE FLASHMAN PAPERS 1839-1842
by George MacDonald Fraser
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- Hardcover
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The first instalment of the Flashman Papers sees the fag-roasting rotter from Tom Brown's Schooldays commence his military career as a reluctant secret agent in Afghanistan. Expelled from Rugby for drunkenness, and none too welcome at home after seducing his father's mistress, the young Flashman embarks on a military career with Lord Cardigan's Hussars. En route to Afghanistan, our hero hones his skills as a soldier, duellist, imposter, coward and 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.
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- Rare Book Cellar (US)
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- 137548
- Title
- FLASHMAN: FROM THE FLASHMAN PAPERS 1839-1842
- Author
- George MacDonald Fraser
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- World Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
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