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Flashman in the Great Game (Flashman Papers #5)

George MacDonald Fraser

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 4.35 | 3781 Users | 119 Reviews

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Original Title:	Flashman in the Great Game
ISBN:	0452263034 (ISBN13: 9780452263031)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Flashman Papers #5, Flashman #8
Characters:	Harry Paget Flashman

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The fifth Flashman novel takes place from 1856-58, and sends our “hero” back to where his career began: India. Poor Flashy is sent to investigate (and suppress) grumbling among the native ranks, but ends up smack dab in the middle of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. If you’ve made it this far into the series, chances are you are a fellow Flashman fanatic, so I won’t waste time preaching to the converted. I am happy to report that readers who enjoyed the first four books will not be disappointed.

One of my very favorite things about the Flashman series is the well-researched history on display. While the books are enormously entertaining, I always end up learning something between the adventures and the laughs. This book was no exception, as I knew absolutely nothing about the 1857 rebellion, which was a significant episode in Indian history that marked the shift from East India Company control of the subcontinent to the British Raj. As usual, Flashman is thrust into the heart of major historical events, from the outbreak of mutiny at Meerut (native soldiers objected to new cartridges which they believed were greased with pig fat, the biting of which was against their religion) to the disastrous Siege of Cawnpore.



There are the usual adventures and misadventures, both perilous and raunchy, that are par for the course in this series. There is plenty of humor on display as well, although I did notice a slight change in tone from earlier Flashman books. I have heard some readers say that Flashman softens a bit as the series goes on, and I detected a bit of that here. In the first book Flashy is a true bastard, but in this entry he’s…well, he’s still a bastard, but he’s a kinder, gentler bastard. He falls for the love interest much harder than in the previous novels, and there are a few times when he shows actual compassion for other human beings. Personally, this didn’t detract from my enjoyment of the book, but it was noticeable.

Flashman and the Great Game closes with a fantastic (and very funny) surprise: (view spoiler)[Flashman is given a copy of Tom Brown’s School Days, the book that inspired Fraser’s series in the first place (hide spoiler)]. It’s a great ending to another very strong entry in the Flashman series. 4.5 stars, highly recommended!

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Title	:	Flashman in the Great Game (Flashman Papers #5)
Author	:	George MacDonald Fraser
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	September 30th 1989 by Plume (first published 1975)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Humor. Adventure. Comedy. Cultural. India

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Sometimes I'm annoyed at the contrivance of inserting a fictional character into famous historical events, but with Flashman it works very well. I'm totally willing to believe that he got caught up in the 1857 Indian Mutiny (or India's First War of Independence, depending on your point of view) and lived to tell the tale - including surviving the Siege of Cawnpore and subsequent massacre.Flashy is just as arrogant, cowardly and lecherous as ever; and just as wry an observer of human nature. The

"FLASHMAN IN THE GREAT GAME" (1975) Book ReviewThat great fictional bully and poltroon, Harry Flashman, once said. Humanity is beastly and stupid, aye and helpless, and theres no end to it, in one of George MacDonald Frasers installments of The Flashman Papers - a series of novels written in memoir form about a British Army officer in Victorian Britain. Well Fraser certainly proved that momentous statement in the series fifth installment, FLASHMAN IN THE GREAT GAME. First published in 1975, the

Flashman never disappoints, even if this novel is much darker than the others. I suppose that can be excused considering the historical event it's based on. Our "hero" is even affected, finding himself doing some very un-Flashy-like things, like falling in love and granting clemency. Still funny and exciting, though.

I'm loving these books because I'm learning much about Victorian history, and many of the figures after which many Melbourne streets are named. I knew little of the Indian Mutiny - it's brutal and fascinating. And Flashy as always, self-deprecating, hilarious, and rogering many ladies.

The Great Game usually refers to jockeying between the Russians and the British for control of Afghanistan and other parts of Central Asia. While that's a factor in Fraser's fifth outing with Flashman, the action and historical detail of the book center more around the Sepoy Rebellion, in which terrible atrocities were committed by both the Indians and the British colonialists.Flashman describes them all. As usual, footnotes provide entertaining and illuminating commentary on the historical

George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman in the Great Game is the fifth installment in the long-running series about Victorian coward-turned-hero Harry Flashman, always bumbling through the British Empire's wars and intrigues to greater glory. This installment focuses on the Indian Mutiny, a subject so portentous and horrifying in its details that Fraser mutes much of Flashy's usual caddish behavior. What's left instead is a gripping, surprisingly sober portrait of India under the Raj, with arrogant

It is difficult to classify this one in the 'Flashman' series. On the one side, this is a book in which Flashman seems more human what with his rational look into the native soldier's grievances and falling in love with a Rani (which is very unusual) and the unfolding of events during that grim years of 1857, 'Flashman in the Great game' seems a little out of place with all the other bawdy adventures of Flashman.Nonetheless, it is a must read as Fraser tries to balance the view of the British