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Author
Series
Flashman papers volume 2
Language
English
Description
Flashman becomes embroiled in advanced diplomacy.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
335 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The twelfth book in the Flashman Papers series finds the reluctant hero and cad Sir Harry Flashman embarking on a secret mission to free a group of Britons from captivity by a tyrannical Abyssinian king.
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
1989, c1975
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Snatched by Lord Palmerston from the pleasures of Balmoral Castle and ordered to India, Harry Flashman rollicks and randies from revolt to massacre to siege to ordeals of the chamber, surrounded by the great Indian Mutiny of 1857.
Author
Language
English
Description
Captain Harry Flashman's covert missions for Her Majesty's Secret Service have taken him all over the globe--Afghanistan, Borneo, Madagascar, Indian and China--but never before has he encountered so formidable a challenge and attempted to rise to it with such hilarious ineptitude as in his latest adventure.
9) Black Ajax
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A black man from Virginia becomes a famous bare-knuckle boxer in 19th century England. He is Tom Molineaux, a freed slave and his story, including the way fame ruined him, is recounted by various people, among them his trainer.
Author
Series
Everyman's Library volume 325
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xxii, 890 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A trilogy of satirical works includes the anti-hero's adventures during the First Anglo-Afghan War, at the side of a young Abraham Lincoln, and while wooing women in India.
Author
Series
Flashman papers volume 7
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
1983, ©1982
Physical Desc
479 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Flashman is in America fleeing a murder charge, traveling with a brothel on wheels toward California, tricking the noble Redmen while seducing their women, and reaching his moment of supreme ingloriousness and fear--under fire at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
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