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A patriotic birthday salute to Brigadier-General Sir Harry Flashman, VC, KCB, KCIE, etc. etc. – born #OTD, 5 May, 1822. As his extraordinary entry in WHO’S WHO (c.1908, below) shows, Sir Harry embodied all those qualities that built & sustained the #BritishEmpire 🇬🇧 🫡

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Sir Harry’s storied career is too long for the ALT-text, but you can read it here:

https://sblazak.wordpress.com/sir-harry-flashman/

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Assoc for Scottish Literature May 5

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“the books add up, by design or otherwise, to one of the most sustained and damning condemnations of imperialism in popular literature”

Matthew Calyfield on the continuing relevance of George MacDonald Fraser’s FLASHMAN novels

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https://meanjin.com.au/latest/why-read-the-flashman-papers-today/

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Why Read the Flashman Papers Today?

When George MacDonald Fraser sat down to pen Flashman, the first volume of what would eventually become a thirteen-book series known as ‘The Flashman Papers’, one doubts he knew how end…

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“since this first volume of his purported ‘memoirs’ was published recently in the US, all decked out with notes and glossary, no fewer than 10 out of 42 reviewers—one of them a professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University—have been gulled into taking Flashman seriously”

—review of the first FLASHMAN novel in TIME Magazine, 1969

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https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,901382,00.html

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Books: Whose Who's Who?

FLASHMAN : FROM THE FLASHAAAN PAPERS 1839-1842, edited and arranged by George MacDonald Fraser. 256 pages. World. $5.95. It should have been obvious that Brigadier General Sir Harry Flashman was...

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