Flashman from the Flashman Papers 1839-1842
About this book
Fraser’s comic novel, written as an autobiographical account, tells the story of Harry Flashman, the bully from Tom Brown’s Schooldays, in his own words. Beginning with his expulsion from Rugby School Flashman goes on to join Lord Cardigan’s Light Dragoons and despite his best efforts to avoid any fighting inadvertently becomes a national hero due to some unlikely exploits in the Anglo-Afghan War.
Subjects
- afghan wars
- africa, fiction
- armed forces
- british
- crimean war, 1853-1856, fiction
- english historical fiction
- fiction
- fiction, action & adventure
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- flashman, harry paget (fictitious character), fiction
- great britain
- great britain. army
- great britain, fiction
- harry paget flashman (fictitious character)
- historical fiction
- history
- large type books
- officers
- soldiers
- undercover operations
- united states, fiction