Quartered Safe Out Here
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`There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John Keegan
Tento autor je proslulý svou sérií historických románů, které jsou prezentovány jako autentické paměti fiktivní postavy, prominentního hrdiny britské armády 19. století. Autor mistrně kombinuje přesné historické kulisy s humorným a ironickým pohledem na postavu, která navzdory své zbabělosti a podlosti stoupá na společenském žebříčku. Jeho styl je oceňován pro svou jedinečnou perspektivu a schopnost vtáhnout čtenáře do doby i do nitra rozporuplného hrdiny. Díla jsou chválena pro svou literární kvalitu a poutavost.






`There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John Keegan
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.
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.
Celebrated Victorian bounder, cad, and lecher, Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., returns to play his (reluctant) part in the Abyssinian War of 1868 inthe long-awaited twelfth installment of the critically acclaimed Flashman Papers.
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.
In volume 2 of The Flashman Papers, Flashman tangles with femme fatale Lola Montez and the dastardly Otto Von Bismarck in a battle of wits which will decide the destiny of a continent. Flashman, the arch-cad and toady, matches his wits, his talents for deceit and malice, and above all his speed in evasion against the most brilliant European statesman and against the most beautiful and unscrupulous adventuress of the era. From London gaming halls and English hunting fields to European dungeons and throne rooms, he is involved in a desperate succession of escapes, disguises, amours, and (when he cannot avoid them) hand-to-hand combats. All the while the destiny of a continent rests on his broad and failing shoulders.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
From the Flashman Papers, 1845-46 - First Time in Paperback
Harry Flashman is a reluctant military hero, surviving key roles in defining military campaigns of the 1800s, mostly through his talent for fornication. Alas he cannot avoid the terrors of secret service in the debauched and intrigue-ridden Court of the Punjab, the attentions of its beautiful nymphomaniac Maharani (not that he minded that, really), the horrors of its torture chambers or the baleful influence of the huge cursed Mountain of Light diamond.
The story of what happened to Flashman, the caddish bully of Tom Brown's Schooldays, after he was expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. The author has written several books about Flashman, and books of short stories, including The General Danced at Dawn.
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: 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.
Aus den nachgelassenen Papieren Harry Flashmans 1839-1842
The fourth volume of memoirs in which Harry Flashman confronts destiny with Lord Cardigan and the Light Brigade. Part of the FLASHMAN series, comprising FLASHMAN, ROYAL FLASH and FLASH FOR FREEDOM, which explores the successful though scandalous later career of the bully in TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS.
"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.
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