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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Harper; New Ed edition (18 Jun. 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0006511252
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006511250
  • Product Dimensions: 13 x 2.1 x 19.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (228 customer reviews)
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'Flashman is a wonderful creation, by a master storyteller. We'll forever delight in his evil antics' JEFFREY ARCHER

‘Politically incorrect, lascivious and fiendishly handsome, Flashman is the greatest ’ BORIS JOHNSON

‘Flashman is one of the great characters of modern fiction; a rogue, a lover, and always an irresistible read’ BERNARD CORNWELL

‘Flashman, Sherlock Holmes, Toad of Toad Hall, Bertie Wooster. Any writer would give his eye-teeth to have created a character as good as those. GMF was one of the greats’ CONN IGGULDEN

‘The perfect fictional creation’ TONY PARSONS

‘A first-rate historical novelist’ KINGSLEY AMIS

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Flashman and the Great Game takes our man into the world of Kim, as he spies for the British, dallies with a luscious maharani and - despite spectacular acts of spinelessness - not only survives the bloodbath of the Indian Mutiny but emerges with a Victoria Cross and a knighthood.Impossible to put down and some of the greatest comic writing of the last 100 years. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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5.0 out of 5 starsSimply The Best
By T Marshall on 19 Feb. 2003
Format: Paperback
A friend of mine last year had to spend some time in the delightful town of Kabul. Prior to his departure I managed to secure a copy of this book for him; I hoped that he would see the funny side of me giving him a story which involved one of the greatest military defeats ever retreating from the very place he was being sent to.
I knew though that I was also giving him the start of the most enjoyable series of books I had ever read, and that if he gleaned even half as much enjoyment from it as I had, then he would have his stay brightened considerably.
For those of you who have never heard of Harry Flashman before, he is the bully and cad from Tom Brown's Schooldays (and incidentally the only character worth remembering amongst the various hypocritical do-gooding manly little Christians that are otherwise described). The story starts where his exit from Rugby in Tom Brown had ended, his being expelled for drunkenness. He consequently joins the army, not with a view to doing any valuable service but as an occupation he could loaf and skive to his hearts content (not that much has changed at Horse Guards since). With a constant eye for the ladies his tale makes an interesting one (especially as he was such a nasty piece of work) even before he was posted to Afghanistan. When he arrives in India we discover, as he does, that he has a talent for horse-riding and languages as well as with the ladies, and so makes an interesting correspondent for us as readers, as he can be shifted to wherever the action is with relative ease. The fact that when the author does so he tends to either be chasing skirt, or running away like the coward he is (directly into trouble more often than not), again makes the whole thing more interesting.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars'I was so impatient I had her without getting out of my chair.'
By Rob Payne on 16 Nov. 2013
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I recently decided to endeavour to collect first edition copies of each of the 12 novels that make up the 'Flashman papers', such has been their impact on me. George Macdonald Fraser's excellent, informative and continuously amusing historical novels detail the most eventful life of Harry Flashman; English Gentleman, coward, cheat, womaniser and scoundrel, a man whose prime concerns are that of self-preservation, and a good tumble.

To those unacquainted with the story, Harry Flashman is the cad and bully expelled for drunkenness at the end of Thomas Hughes' classic novel 'Tom Brown's Schooldays'. From here, Macdonald Fraser takes up the reigns of his story almost immediately, as a disgraced seventeen year-old Flashy is sent home from Rugby school to make his explanations to his father. After duly bedding his father's mistress, young Flashy joins the 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons commanded by Lord Cardigan. Here he discovers he has a talent for riding and for foreign languages, cheats at a duel, and by a totally self-inflicted twist of fate ends up at the frontier of the British Empire in Afghanistan, and subsequently at the infamous retreat from Kabul (1842), a military disaster which resulted in the loss of more than 16,000 troops and civilian workers (and only one survivor), from which he of course runs away.

MacDonald Fraser was a damned fine writer, and his attention to historical detail is such that the books are brimming with highly accurate information throughout the series, and from which I have actually learned a great deal. In this first installment Flashy encounters a slew of historical figures; Lord Cardigan, General Elphinstone, William Hay Macnaghten, Akbar Khan.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA1, 100%, top-hole read
By Splossy on 10 Sept. 2004
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The first and possibly best of the Flashman tales. If you've not read and Flashman books then you've not lived. You've certainly not read anything like them. He's the original anti-hero. You've no doubt watched heroic action films and thought "why doesn't he just shoot the guy in the back right now and run for it?...I would" - well Flashman would too and a whole lot worse, if it gets him off the hook or into bed with his many lovers.
It's a unique blend of historical research, incredible adventures, philandering, thieving, bullying and above all - brilliant story-telling shot through with a breath of refreshing cynicism. Utterly brilliant stuff. I just wish George McDonald Fraser could write some more.
One caveat - GMF tells it like it is. If people in 1820 used a certain word for slaves then he uses it too. If you are a bit PC you might not like it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA great start to the best historical series of all time
By Keith Thompson on 2 Dec. 2012
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People are always asking authors, "Where do you get your ideas?" The answer is, "We steal from those who have gone before us." My novel Scoundrel! grew out of my love for George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman novels, which I cannot praise highly enough. Flashman is the ultimate anti-hero--a coward, bully, liar, cad, and all-around bounder--who nonetheless manages to emerge with fresh laurels after every mis-adventure, eventually retiring as a respected and admired general in the British Army.

The key to any anti-hero is the author's ability to make the reader like (or at least identify with) a character who is, by definition, a villain. In this, Fraser succeeds in spades. Thanks to his brilliant use of humor, he transforms a character who has no redeeming traits into someone who is so delightfully villainous that the reader can't help but fall in with Flashman's malevolent point of view. Flashman is a self-proclaimed scoundrel, opportunist, and coward--and proud of it. And yet, ironically, it is these very character flaws that make him such an insightful observer of the historical figures and events of his time. He doesn't care a fig for anything but himself, so his views are not colored by patriotism or idealism or heroic myth. Rather, he views it all with a sort of sneering dispassion--the very voice of history itself.

Fraser is a startlingly good writer. His descriptions absolutely transport you back to the good old days of the British Empire--and the bad old days, too. The Flashman books present a surprisingly balanced view of not only what made the Empire great, but of the rotten underpinnings that eventually doomed it.Read more ›
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