The twelfth book in the Flashman Papers series finds our 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. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.[...]
George MacDonald Fraser wrote The Candlemass Road after completing his researchand writing The Steel Bonnets, his nonfiction account of the Anglo-Scottishborder Reivers. Young Lady Margaret Dacre was brought up in the genteelfashion at the court of Queen Elizabeth I. When her father is murdered, she[...]
George MacDonald Fraser--beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels--offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. Fraser offers a firsthand glimpse at the camaraderie, danger, and satisfactions of service. A substantial epilogue, occasioned by the fiftiet[...]
For George MacDonald Fraser the bully Flashman was easily the most interesting character in Tom Brown's Schooldays, and imaginative speculation as to what might have happened to him after his expulsion from Rugby School for drunkenness ended in 12 volumes of memoirs in which Sir Harry Paget Flashman[...]
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.[...]