Flashman on the March
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4.2 • 23 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
It’s 1868 and Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., arch-cad, amorist, cold-headed soldier, and reluctant hero, is back! Fleeing a chain of vengeful pursuers that includes Mexican bandits, the French Foreign Legion, and the relatives of an infatuated Austrian beauty, Flashy is desperate for somewhere to take cover. So desperate, in fact, that he embarks on a perilous secret intelligence-gathering mission to help free a group of Britons being held captive by a tyrannical Abyssinian king. Along the way, of course, are nightmare castles, brigands, massacres, rebellions, orgies, and the loveliest and most lethal women in Africa, all of which will test the limits of the great bounder’s talents for knavery, amorous intrigue, and survival.
Flashman on the March—the twelfth book in George MacDonald Fraser’s ever-beloved, always scandalous Flashman Papers series--is Flashman and Fraser at their best.
Customer Reviews
The last of the Flashman papers, as good as the first
The Flashman papers are simply the best historical fiction every written (yes, even better than O'brian or Michner). You will never have more fun while learning. If the is any flaw to any of the Flashman papers, is that they are so good you forget that it is fiction. Everything I ever learned about human nature i learned from Flashman's brutal and unbiased observation of his fellow man (and woman... and a lot of those). Flashman on the March is the last of the series, and while the two novels that proceed it are the weakest of the series, On the March recaptures the Flashman magic and is equal to the best off the papers. A long forgotten British campaign in is brought back to the modern reader in a take that makes it relevant today.