The Flashman Papers are wildly entertaining and the literary gold standard for comedic historical novels. Fraser’s stroke of genius was to create a backstory for Flashman and turn him into a hilarious and surprisingly likable antihero who’s different adventures take him across the globe in the Nineteenth Century. Harry Flashman was the egregious cowardly bully who made Tom and his friend’s days miserable. Flashman was originally a creation of Thomas Hughes and his 1857 Tom Brown’s School Days. He wrote a memoir of his experiences in Burma and Indochina but his reputation rest mostly on his fantastic series of Flashman novels. MacDonald served as a soldier in Burma during World War II. In my 20s I discovered the joys of reading British writer George MacDonald Fraser.
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