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  • The Flashman Papers, Book 8
  • By: George MacDonald Fraser
  • Narrated by: Colin Mace
  • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (309 ratings)
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Flashman in the Great Game

By: George MacDonald Fraser
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Summary

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.

What caused the Indian Mutiny? The greased cartridge, religious fanaticism, political blundering, yes - but one hitherto unsuspected factor is now revealed to be the furtive figure who fled across India in 1857 with such frantic haste: Flashman.

Plumbing new depths of anxious knavery in his role as secret agent extraordinaire, Flashman saw far more of the Great Mutiny than he wanted. How he survived thugs and tsarist agents, Eastern beauties and cabinet ministers and kept his skin intact is a mystery revealed here in this volume of The Flashman Papers.

©2015 George MacDonald Fraser (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Critic reviews

"The Flashman Papers do what all great sagas do - winning new admirers along the way but never, ever betraying old ones. It is an immense achievement." ( Sunday Telegraph)
"Not so much a march as a full-blooded charge, fortified by the usual lashings of salty sex, meticulously choreographed battle scenes and hilariously spineless acts of self preservation by Flashman." ( Sunday Times)
"Not only are the Flashman books extremely funny, but they give meticulous care to authenticity. You can, between the guffaws, learn from them." ( Washington Post
"A first-rate historical novelist." (Kingsley Amis)

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one of the best

fantastic book. listened on three occasions and had the book finished on the last occasion.

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More Flashy adventures

Revisiting my Flashman phase and his less than glorious adventures are still great fun. The stories are well narrated and keep the flow of the story going along at a good pace.

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amazing

the finest out of all the flashman novels. it has everything you could want in a flashman novel

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Like a cross between Sharpe & Blackadder

This was my first Flashman story, I can only descrbe it as a sort of Sharpe style adventure, but the 'hero' is more of a Blackadder type ...though I suspect Flashman probably had some hand in inspiring those two characters!

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Flashman Fan

Read the book first then listen to the audio book. You won’t be disappointed. You learn so much history whilst encouraging you to be critical. GMF as an author is a genius in my opinion.

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Great

Another romping read from Harry Flashman. He’s in India this time up to his usual antics

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Great story

Great fun staged around historical events
A book of the time which is shown by the authenticity of the terminology

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Sexist Racist Bigotry

I was expected to read this as a Reading Group choice or I would never have picked it up nor got to the end of it once started. I’m appalled that as recently as 2015 someone saw fit to commission a reading of this book and someone else was paid to read it. Yes well read and yes an accessible version of history but there can be no excuse for the ongoing dissemination of this man’s writing in a post/#metoo era. Badly done Audible. Badly done.

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fascinating as wel as extremely entertaining

I knew little of the Indian Mutiny... school education seems to be rather lax in explaining the facts and this, along with other Flashman stories, has given an insight to this significant period of history, whilst consistently keeping the story fun and wanting to " turn the page"....
well I really enjoyed it

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wow

Trip into history, great adventure . Flashman at his best. Good narrator only couldn't pronounce the Indian words ver well..

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