Dieser Autor ist berühmt für seine historische Romanserie, die als angebliche Memoiren eines fiktiven Helden der britischen Armee des 19. Jahrhunderts präsentiert wird. Er verbindet meisterhaft akkurat recherchierte historische Kulissen mit einer humorvollen und ironischen Darstellung einer Figur, die trotz ihrer Feigheit und Gerissenheit in der Gesellschaft aufsteigt. Sein Stil wird für seine einzigartige Perspektive und die Fähigkeit gelobt, den Leser sowohl in die Epoche als auch in das Innere des widersprüchlichen Helden hineinzuziehen. Die Werke werden für ihre literarische Qualität und fesselnde Erzählweise geschätzt.
Im vierten Band der Memoiren stellt sich Harry Flashman seinem Schicksal, als er auf Lord Cardigan und die Leichte Brigade trifft. Teil der FLASHMAN-Serie, die FLASHMAN, ROYAL FLASH und FLASH FOR FREEDOM umfasst, beleuchtet sie die erfolgreiche, wenn auch skandalöse spätere Karriere des Schlägers aus TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS.
Harry Flashman: der unverbesserliche Schläger aus Tom Browns Schulzeit, nun mit einem Victoria Cross ausgezeichnet, verfügt über drei Haupttalente - Reiten, Sprachgewandtheit und Frauenverführung. Als widerwilliger Militärheld spielt Flashman eine zentrale Rolle in den entscheidenden militärischen Kampagnen des 19. Jahrhunderts, obwohl er alles daran setzt, ihnen zu entkommen. Flashman, Soldat, Duellant, Liebhaber, Hochstapler, Feigling, Schuft und Held, triumphiert in diesem ersten Teil der Flashman-Papiere. Seine Abenteuer als widerwilliger Geheimagent in Afghanistan und sein Eintritt in die exklusive Gesellschaft der Husaren von Lord Cardigan kulminieren in seiner schlimmsten Stunde - seiner Rolle in der historischen Katastrophe des Rückzugs aus Kabul. Dies ist die Geschichte eines Schurken, der das Böse um seiner selbst willen genoss. Schamlos, aufregend und lustig wird Flashmans bedauernswerte Odyssee mit dem zynischen Blick eines Schurken beobachtet, der nur in der Berichterstattung dessen, was er sah, ehrlich war. Er lässt alle anderen schwarzen Schafe respektabel grau erscheinen.
Harry Flashman in Nordamerika, wo er mit einem Planwagenzug - der ein Bordell auf Rädern ist - nach Westen zieht. Wild Bill Hickok, der Apachen-Häuptling Geronimo, Kit Carson und Crazy Horse werden zu seinen guten Bekannten und mit General Custer reitet er in Richtung Little Bighorn. Es gibt ein Wiedersehen mit Susie, der Bordellmutter aus New Orleans und ihren Schützlingen. Dramatisch und voller Spannung - und mit einer realistischen Darstellung der Handlungsweise der Indianer.
Harry Flashman, der amoralische Feigling und Frauenheld, kehrt zurück! Im 1. Sikh-Krieg soll er die Khalsa-Armee ausspionieren und begegnet dem legendären Koh-i-noor-Diamanten sowie einer schönen Maharani. MacDonald Fraser etabliert sich mit den FLASHMAN-Romanen als Meister des historischen Abenteuergenres.
Aus den nachgelassenen Papieren Harry Flashmans 1839-1842
Karrieren eines Kavaliers. Aus d. nachgelassenen Papieren Harry Flashmans 1839-1842. Dt. v. Paul Baudisch
Flashman - Karrieren eines Kavaliers - bk958; Hoffmann & Campe Verlag; Hrg. George MacDonald Fraser; Paperback; 1971
`There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John Keegan
Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.
A game of cards leads Flashman from the jungle death-house of Dahomey to the slave state of Mississippi as he dabbles in the slave trade in Volume III of the Flashman Papers.
Flashy's back in his raunchiest romp yet. Victiorian England's most notorious swashbuckling student is wrenched from his typical, pleasurable contemplation of indecent intentions and thrust headfirst into the middle of an Indian mutiny as a secret agent extraordinaire. Pity the insatiable Flash as he bumbles, cowers, and sidesteps his way around Russian spies, thug stranglers, and rampaging hordes of Sepoy mutineers only to meet his match in the voluptuous Princess Lakshmibai, the Imperial Jezebel of Jhansi, with an amorous appetite even more voracious than his own. Never has Flashman been forced to rise to so great a challenge - again and again and again...
A series of novels featuring Flashman, the character from Tom Brown's Schooldays. They concern his life after expulsion from Rugby School in the late 1830s and are a sequence of memoirs in which the arch-cad reviews, from the safety of old age, his exploits in bed and battle.
Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.
Bringing historical fact spiritedly to life, Fraser tells the rollicking tale of how a Virginia slave, "the black Ajax, " fought his way to freedom and then to celebrity in England in the early 1800s.
The tenth novel in the Flashman series. Flashman's efforts land him in one of the tightest corners of his inglorious but not unexciting career. Contributing to igniting the US Civil War, he's saved by a dusky beauty. He can be relied on to live down his reputation in bed and battle.
"If Jesus Christ were amongst them, they would deceive him," it was said of the plunders, raiders, and outlaws who terrorized the Anglo-Scottish Border for over 300 years. Theirs is an almost forgotten chapter of British history, preserved largely in folktales and ballads. It is the story of the notorious raiding families - Armstrongs, Elliots, Grahams, Johnstones, Maxwells, Scotts, Kerrs, Nixons, and others--of the outlaw bands and broken men, and the fierce battles of English and Scottish armies across the Marches. The Steel Bonnets tells their true story in its historical context - how the reivers ran their raids and operated their system of blackmail and terrorism, and how the March Wardens, enforcing the unique Border law, fought the great lawless community. A superb work of scholarship and a spellbinding narrative. George MacDonald Fraser is the celebrated author of the Flashman novels, The Candlemass Road, The Pyrates, and the Private McAuslan stories.
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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents - horsemanship, facility with foreign languages and fornication. A reluctant military hero, Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th century, despite trying his utmost to escape them all.
Elizabethan England, and a dastardly Spanish plot to take over the throne is uncovered. It's up to Agent Archie Noble to save Queen and country in this saucy and swashbuckling romp from the bestselling author of The Flashman Papers and The Pyrates.
No one knew who Mark Franklin was when he disembarked at Liverpool in 1909 with a copy of Shakespeare's works, an old Mexican charro saddle, and two long-barrelled Remingtons in his battered luggage. He was just another American, tall and gently-spoken and alone, and what he was looking for none of them could guess, although they wondered - at Scotland Yard, in City offices, in the glittering theatreland of the West End, in the highest circles of Society and in the humble bar parlour of the little pub at Castle Lancing. To all of them, royalty and rustics, squires and suffragettes, the women who loved him and the men who hated and feared him, he remained a disturbing mystery, for while he came from a far frontier in another world, he was not altogether a stranger...even old General Flashman, who could see further than most, never guessed the whole truth.
From The Flashman Papers, 1854-1855
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 illustrious Flashy gets up to his old tricks in another installment of The Flashman Papers. 'Forward the Light Brigade' Was there a man dismayed? Indeed there was. As the British cavalry prepared to launch themselves against the Russian guns at Balaclava, Harry Flashman was not so much dismayed as terrified. But the Crimea was only the beginning: beyond lay snowbound wastes of the Great Russian slave-empire, torture and death from relentless enemies, headlong escapes, savage tribal hordes to the right of him, passionate and beautiful females to the left of him, and finally that unknown but desperate war on the roof of the world, when India was the mighty prize and there was nothing to stop the armed might of Imperial Russia but the wavering sabre and terrified ingenuity of old Flashy himself.
El salvaje Oeste y la batalla de Little Big Horn es uno de los escenarios ideales para que un personaje como Flashman desarrolle sus mejores artes: el engaño, la traición, el juego sucio... En esta novela tiene ocasión de demostrar hasta qué extremos es capaz de llegar con tal de salvar el pellejo. Y la sátira que hace MacDonald Fraser tanto de los indios como de los soldados y políticos americanos no deja títere con cabeza.
