Flashman Papers 3-Book Collection 3: Flashman at the Charge, Flashman in the Great Game, Flashman and the Angel of the Lord

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Flashman Papers 3-Book Collection 3: Flashman at the Charge, Flashman in the Great Game, Flashman and the Angel of the Lord
George MacDonald Fraser

Books 7-9 in George MacDonald Fraser’s uproarious bestselling Flashman series, now available in one ebook for the first time.FLASHMAN AT THE CHARGE: 1854-1855As the Light Brigade prepare to charge the Russian guns at Balaclava, Flashman assumes his characteristic battle position: sabre rattling, teeth chattering, bowels rumbling in terror. His flight from the dangers of Crimes will take him across the great Russian empire to Central Asia, where savage tribal hordes form a last line of resistance under the leadership of the Silk One, a lusty little baggage with one thing on her mind…FLASHMAN IN THE GREAT GAME: 1856-1858Flashman finds himself plumbing new depths of anxious knavery in his role as a secret agent extraordinaire. Cowering and sidestepping his way around Thug assassins, tsarist agents and rampaging hordes of Sepoy mutineers, Flashman somehow manages to keep his skin intact. until he meets his match in the voluptuous Princess Lakshmiba…FLASHMAN AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD: 1858-1859Beating a hasty retreat from the boudoir would normally suffice when caught in flagrante with a wanton young wife, but when the husband turns out to be a high court judge, a change of continents is called for. And so Flashman embarks upon a voyage that will see him shanghaied and shipped off to America. His destination: the little Virginian town of Harper’s Ferry, where John Brown and his gang of fanatics plan to fire the first shot in the war against slavery – with Flashy as military adviser.

THE FLASHMAN PAPERS BOOKS 7–9

FLASHMAN AT THE CHARGE FLASHMAN IN THE GREAT GAME FLASHMAN AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD

GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER

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Title Page (#uad128528-c170-5490-98d7-f969a2e78f8a)

Flashman at the Charge (#uba03ec93-5a49-5b08-8403-e4543212346a)

Flashman in the Great Game (#u44a3637f-f289-59f6-8e57-c4f3719514f3)

Flashman and the Angel of the Lord (#u0467d37a-2947-5884-a16c-fb54dddbcb1e)

About the Author (#uae7c7668-571c-5412-b610-71a3258c032c)

Also by George MacDonald Fraser (#u2083eb58-d241-5aa2-860c-6280f8c8ef99)

Copyright (#uf0b3c5b0-cf55-5764-809b-0e8b6a265759)

About the Publisher (#u6920e322-ad9a-59ad-ad9b-1c43a2452e65)

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FLASHMAN AT THE CHARGE

From The Flashman Papers, 1854–55

Edited and Arranged by

GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER

Dedication (#u4cb8a78f-23ac-5629-8e74-b6a2c2c8ac0f)

FOR “EKATERIN”,

rummy champion of Samarkand

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Title Page (#uc3468ea2-3dad-5013-8c6e-2ea8cdd0e3e2)

Dedication (#u93f9e935-4d27-57bf-978b-714cffa85a56)

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Chapter 1 (#u17705310-dbe1-5098-b664-3b3cd75cd524)

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Chapter 4 (#u7f265aa2-4758-5065-ad6f-9d49b54f9d4e)

Chapter 5 (#u7b803e56-5577-50a3-8e22-d00b4724e5e0)

Chapter 6 (#uac966f23-735b-549d-83a1-dc326869cb00)

Chapter 7 (#u0846d356-30d8-50a3-82f6-39c90048a9e1)

Chapter 8 (#u1a319166-3620-5552-9761-4bf58f75c5e5)

Chapter 9 (#u0619b24b-e748-5d9a-bd5f-a5f5e6911f2f)

Chapter 10 (#u0a439e63-ec48-5930-9a90-3eb5668ff8f0)

Appendix I: Balaclava (#ua550e0c0-f8ba-5e24-b8c9-654654c9a702)

Appendix II: Yakub Beg and Izzat Kutebar (#u67b3cf97-1563-56b5-94a7-e5d93583eed8)

Notes (#u9bb2f514-34e5-5e05-8d5e-03a1e460b63f)

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Explanatory Note (#u4cb8a78f-23ac-5629-8e74-b6a2c2c8ac0f)

When the Flashman Papers, that vast personal memoir describing the adult career of the notorious buily of Tom Brown’s Schooldays, came to light some years ago, it was at once evident that new and remarkable material was going to be added to Victorian history. In the first three packets of the memoirs, already published by permission of their owner, Mr Paget Morrison, Flashman described his early military career, his participation in the ill-fated First Afghan War, his involvement (with Bismarck and Lola Montez) in the Schleswig-Holstein Question, and his fugitive adventures as a slaver in West Africa, an abolitionist agent in the United States, and an erstwhile associate of Congressman Abraham Lincoln, Mr Disraeli, and others.

It will be seen from this that the great soldier’s recollections were not all of a purely military nature, and those who regretted that these earlier papers contained no account of his major campaigns (Indian Mutiny, U.S. Civil War, etc.) will doubtless take satisfaction that in the present volume he deals with his experiences in the Crimea, as well as in other even more colourful – and possibly more important – theatres of conflict. That he adds much to the record of social and military history, illumines many curious byways, and confirms modern opinions of his own deplorable character, goes without saying, but his general accuracy where he deals with well-known events and personages, and his transparent honesty, at least as a memorialist, are evidence that the present volume is as trustworthy as those which preceded it.

As editor, I have only corrected his spelling and added the usual footnotes and appendices. The rest is Flashman.

G.M.F.

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