Flashman At The Charge
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Into the smoke and carnage of the Crimean War rides Harry Flashman — coward, scoundrel, and accidental hero — swept up in the catastrophic Charge of the Light Brigade before being plunged deep into the treacherous intrigues of Central Asia. Flashman at the Charge is the fourth instalment in George MacDonald Fraser's celebrated Flashman Papers series, a masterwork of satirical historical fiction that follows the magnificently self-serving antihero as he stumbles, schemes, and blunders his way through some of the nineteenth century's most iconic military disasters. With uproarious wit and meticulous period detail, Fraser reconstructs the follies of Victorian imperial ambition, thrusting Flashman into the company of real historical figures while engineering escapes of breathtaking audacity. Fraser's genius lies in his ability to wield comedy and adventure as instruments of genuine historical insight, using Flashman's shameless candour to skewer the myths of heroism and empire that the Victorians held so dear. The novel's tone is irresistibly sardonic — Flashman never misses an opportunity to save his own skin while inadvertently saving the day — yet beneath the roguish humour runs a sharp, unsentimental portrait of war's brutal realities. Richly researched and propulsively plotted, this instalment cements Flashman's place among literature's most outrageously compelling anti-heroes, and leaves the reader wondering just how many more impossible scrapes one thoroughly disreputable man can survive.
Author: George Macdonald Fraser
Format: Hardback
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Into the smoke and carnage of the Crimean War rides Harry Flashman — coward, scoundrel, and accidental hero — swept up in the catastrophic Charge of the Light Brigade before being plunged deep into the treacherous intrigues of Central Asia. Flashman at the Charge is the fourth instalment in George MacDonald Fraser's celebrated Flashman Papers series, a masterwork of satirical historical fiction that follows the magnificently self-serving antihero as he stumbles, schemes, and blunders his way through some of the nineteenth century's most iconic military disasters. With uproarious wit and meticulous period detail, Fraser reconstructs the follies of Victorian imperial ambition, thrusting Flashman into the company of real historical figures while engineering escapes of breathtaking audacity. Fraser's genius lies in his ability to wield comedy and adventure as instruments of genuine historical insight, using Flashman's shameless candour to skewer the myths of heroism and empire that the Victorians held so dear. The novel's tone is irresistibly sardonic — Flashman never misses an opportunity to save his own skin while inadvertently saving the day — yet beneath the roguish humour runs a sharp, unsentimental portrait of war's brutal realities. Richly researched and propulsively plotted, this instalment cements Flashman's place among literature's most outrageously compelling anti-heroes, and leaves the reader wondering just how many more impossible scrapes one thoroughly disreputable man can survive.