Flashman

FINAL UPDATE: Hadn't planned on returning to this so soon, but am just finishing DK's new and excellent The World War I Book, and the final story here - The Road to Charing Cross - ties in rather neatly, as it involves a (wholly fictional, I think?) assassination attempt on Emperor Franz Joseph by......more

Fans of the intrepid poltroon, Sir Harry Flashman, will need no introduction to the scandal and intrigue laced comedies of the late George MacDonald Fraser. Fraser was an advocate who contended that even Hollywood history with its inevitable bowdlerizing (or scandalizing, depending on the director/s......more

Law if diminishing returns continues in this, the penultimate title in the series. Just the one to go for me. Here we have a novella and two short stories. The first probably would have been enough. Dealing with Harry in his later years - he hasn't changed much. There is involvement in a Austro/Hungar......more

As much as I love the Flashman Papers, including Flashman and the Tiger, I'd have no hesitation in describing this instalment as the worst of the series. I should stress that I mean 'worst' in relative terms, for it is still a great read – it's just not on par with the rest. Unlike the other eleven b......more

The next to last book has a novelette and two short stories, but the main theme of these story is revenge. George MacDonald uses real events, real and fictitious personage and Harry Flashman to interact with it all. The book end on a nice note as the disguised Flashman is analyzed by Sherlock Holmes......more