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Flashman in the Great Game
by George MacDonald Fraser
This is possibly the most serious Flashman I've read yet. Sure there's plenty of tomfoolery and fornication as per usual from our Victorian 'hero' but once the Indian mutiny kicks off there are some stark brutal descriptions of the bloodbath that followed.
Its pretty clear that awful atrocities were committed by both sides and Fraser doesn't hold back in giving the reader a clear picture of the chaotic slaughtering that transpired.
In the foreground there was also some rudimentary (well compared to modern day tactics) espionage as Flashy plays his own part in the 'great game' between Russia and Britain as he comes face to face with the same Russian agent that plagued him in Flashman at the Charge.
Once again with the Flashman series the level of historical detail in this novel is highly impressive and well researched.
Its pretty clear that awful atrocities were committed by both sides and Fraser doesn't hold back in giving the reader a clear picture of the chaotic slaughtering that transpired.
In the foreground there was also some rudimentary (well compared to modern day tactics) espionage as Flashy plays his own part in the 'great game' between Russia and Britain as he comes face to face with the same Russian agent that plagued him in Flashman at the Charge.
Once again with the Flashman series the level of historical detail in this novel is highly impressive and well researched.