Word: flashman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this, the third installment of his maculate memoirs, Harry Flashman comes to the United States (circa 1848). As usual it is all a terrible mistake. "Whenever I'm feeling up to the mark and congratulating myself," the great bounder glumly remarks, "some fearful fate trips me headlong, and I find myself haring for cover with my guts churning and Nemesis in full cry after...
Fraser is so far best known as the spoofing inventor of Henry Paget Flashman (Flashman, 1969, and Royal Flash, 1970), the compleat bounder. He thus comes to the reivers with an acute understanding of unsporting behavior. It stands him in excellent stead. After Henry VIII defeated the Scots at Solway Moss in 1542, for example, the fleeing survivors were held for ransom by their own border countrymen...