The tales are written in the first person, with Fraser claiming to be just Flashman's editor. The military history is generally quite accurate, except for having Flashy inserted. 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.įlashman participates in all of Britain's major wars of the late 19th century, plus other conflicts. Fraser takes up the tale from there, having him join the army. The character first appears as a bully in Thomas Hughe's Tom Brown's Schooldays toward the end of that novel he is expelled from Rugby school at 17 for drunkenness. Harry Flashman is a fictional character in a series of comic historical novels and short stories by George MacDonald Fraser.
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