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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. Expelled from Rugby for drunkenness, and none too welcome at home after seducing his father's mistress, the young Flashman embarks on a military career with Lord Cardigan's Hussars. En route to Afghanistan, our hero hones his skills as a soldier, duellist, imposter, coward and amorist (mastering all 97 ways of Hindu love-making during a brief sojourn in Calcutta), before being pressed into reluctant service as a secret agent. His Afghan adventures culminate in a starring role in that great historic disaster, the Retreat from Kabul.

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George Macdonald Fraser (1925-2008) fue un novelista conocido principalmente por su serie de novelas sobre el gran Harry Flashman. Fraser sirvió en el Ejército británico durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y trabajó como periodista antes de dedicarse a la escritura. Además de su serie más famosa, escribió guiones de películas como Los tres mosqueteros (1973) y Octopussy (1983). Su habilidad para combinar aventura, sátira y realismo histórico lo convirtió en una figura única en la literatura contemporánea. Sus novelas sobre Harry Flashman han sido un éxito de ventas en todo el mundo.

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