- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; (Reissue) edition (1 Nov 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006513034
- ISBN-13: 978-0006513032
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 214,833 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘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’
PG Wodehouse
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George MacDonald Fraser’s famous Flashman series appearing for the first time in B-format with an exciting new series style, ready to please his legions of old fans and attract armies of new ones.
The Flashman Papers 1860
Volume Eight
‘When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman’ Abraham Lincoln
Unfortunately, in China in 1860, a lot of people did: the English vicar’s daughter with her cargo of opium; Lord Elgin in search of an intelligence chief; the Emperor’s ravishing concubine, seeking a champion in her struggles for power; and Szu-Zhan, the female bandit colossus, as practised in the arts of love as in the arts of war.
They were not to know that behind his Victoria Cross, Flash Harry was a base coward and a charlatan. They took him at face value. And he took them, for all he could, while China seethed through the bloodiest civil war in history and the British and French armies hacked their way to the heart of the Forbidden City…
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Flash Harry at his best,
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This review is from: Flashman and the Dragon (The Flashman Papers) (Paperback)
One of the best of the series, Flashman and the Dragon combines the usual sublime writing with a particularly fascinating, and not too-well known, military campaign. If you want to learn something new about Victorian history without realising you are making the effort there is no better way.Highly recommended, and if you liked any of the other Flashman's you will be safe buying this book
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Flashman and the Dragon,
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This review is from: Flashman and the Dragon (Audio CD)
I found this story interesting because I learnt quite a lot about the Chinese history. An era I had never known much about.
Toby Stephens is a remarkable reader and so amusing with the female voices, very clever indeed. Also his ability to alter voice tones and dialects is amazing. The author is one whose books I have never read and will seek them out in the local library.A naughty hero if ever there was one!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
This time Flashman goes to China! Hurrah!,
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This review is from: Flashman and the Dragon (The Flashman Papers) (Paperback)
Yes, once again Flashy finds himself in the thick of things - a Chinese Civil War! GMF combines well-researched historical fact - stranger than a lot of fiction - with the tale of the ever-reluctant Colonel Flashman, who beds and connives his way through the Imperial and rebel courts and battlefields of China in 1860. From the very first sentence, when Flashman warns the reader that the time to beware of a pretty woman is not when you're flush, but broke - because what is she after, then? - you just know he is ging to be cajoled/ordered/kidnapped into another daring adventure... and you're not disappointed. Buy this book - and the whole series, if you can!
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