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Fraser George MacDonald

    Tento autor je proslulý svou sérií historických románů, které jsou fiktivně připsány Harrymu Flashmanovi. Flashman, původně postava zbabělce a tyrana, se v těchto dílech stává vypravěčem vlastních memoárů, v nichž vzpomíná na svou kariéru hrdiny britské armády v 19. století. Romány jsou ceněny pro svou detailní historickou přesnost a osobitý styl, který zaujal i slavné literární kritiky. Díla nabízejí jedinečný pohled na historii skrze optiku protagonisty, jehož motivace jsou často daleko od hrdinských.

    Flashman's Lady
    Flashman on the March
    Flashman and the Redskins
    Flashman and the Mountain of Light
    The Flashman Papers - 4: Flashman at the Charge
    Quartered Safe Out Here
    • Quartered Safe Out Here

      • 358 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení

      `There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John Keegan

      Quartered Safe Out Here
      4,4
    • The Flashman Papers - 4: Flashman at the Charge

      From The Flashman Papers, 1854-1855

      • 336 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení

      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.

      The Flashman Papers - 4: Flashman at the Charge
      4,3
    • Flashman and the Mountain of Light

      • 400 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení

      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.

      Flashman and the Mountain of Light
      4,3
    • Flashman and the Redskins

      From the Flashman Papers, 1849-50 and 1875-76

      • 479 stránek
      • 17 hodin čtení

      Celebrated Victorian bounder, cad, and lecher, Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., returns to play his (reluctant) part in the Battle of Little Bighorn in the seventh volume of the critically acclaimed Flashman Papers . What was Harry Flashman doing on the slopes of Little Bighorn, caught between the gallant remnant of Custer's 7th Cavalry and the attack of Sitting Bull's braves? He was trying to get out of the line of fire and escape yet again with his life (if not his honour) intact. Here is the legendary and authentic West of Mangas Colorado's Apaches, of Kit Carson, Custer and Spotted Tail, of Crazy Horse and the Deadwood stage, gunfighters and gamblers, scoundrels and Indian belles, enthusiastic widows and mysterious adventuresses. The West as it really was: terrifying!

      Flashman and the Redskins
      4,3
    • Flashman on the March

      • 416 stránek
      • 15 hodin čtení

      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.

      Flashman on the March
      4,1
    • 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.

      Flashman's Lady
      4,1
    • Flashman

      • 256 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení

      "If ever there was a time when I felt that 'watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet' stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman."–P.G. Wodehouse The first novel in the Flashman series Fraser revives Flashman, a caddish bully from Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes, and relates Flashman’s adventures after he is expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. Flashy enlists in the Eleventh Light Dragoons and is promptly sent to India and Afghanistan, where despite his consistently cowardly behavior he always manages to come out on top. Flashman is an incorrigible anti-hero for the ages. This humorous adventure book will appeal to fans of historical fiction, military fiction, and British history as well as to fans of Clive Cussler, James Bond, and The Three Musketeers.

      Flashman
      4,0
    • The Pyrates

      • 416 stránek
      • 15 hodin čtení

      Repackaged to tie-in with hardback publication of The Reavers' and to appeal to a new generation of George MacDonald Fraser fans, The Pyrates' is a swashbuckling romp of a novel.

      The Pyrates
      3,6