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Fraser George MacDonald

    Deze auteur staat bekend om zijn historische romanserie, gepresenteerd als de vermeende memoires van Harry Flashman. Flashman, oorspronkelijk bedacht als een lafaard en een bullebak, blikt terug op zijn avontuurlijke dagen als held in het 19e-eeuwse Britse leger. De romans worden geprezen om hun nauwgezette historische accuraatheid en een onderscheidende vertelstem die literaire critici heeft geboeid. Deze werken bieden een uniek perspectief op de geschiedenis via een protagonist wiens motivaties vaak allesbehalve heldhaftig zijn.

    Flashman on the March
    Flashman and the Redskins
    Flashman and the Mountain of Light
    Flashman at the Charge
    Quartered Safe Out Here
    The Complete McAuslan
    • 2009

      Flashman

      • 256bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen
      4,0(834)Tarief

      "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
    • 2006

      Flashman and the Redskins

      • 512bladzijden
      • 18 uur lezen
      4,3(173)Tarief

      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 Redskins
    • 2006

      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.

      Flashman at the Charge
    • 2006

      Flashman on the March

      • 336bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen
      4,1(1954)Tarief

      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.

      Flashman on the March
    • 2000

      The Complete McAuslan

      • 608bladzijden
      • 22 uur lezen
      4,4(459)Tarief

      George MacDonald Fraser's hilarious stories of the most disastrous soldier in the British Army - collected together for the first time in one volume.

      The Complete McAuslan
    • 2000

      Quartered Safe Out Here

      • 358bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen
      4,4(129)Tarief

      `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
    • 1999

      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
    • 1999

      Flashman and the Mountain of Light

      From the Flashman Papers, 1845-46 - First Time in Paperback

      • 397bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen
      4,3(3115)Tarief

      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.

      Flashman and the Mountain of Light
    • 1996

      The Pyrates

      • 416bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen
      3,6(92)Tarief

      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