Flashman And the Redskins - Softcover

Fraser, George MacDonald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452264871 ISBN 13: 9780452264878

Publisher: Penguin, 1991

Synopsis

If the American West was a place for heroes, what then was Harry Flashman doing there? Among other things, he was fleeing a murder charge...traveling with a brothel on wheels toward the Californian goldfields...betraying the scarlet woman who loved him...tricking the noble redmen while seducing their women...studiously ignoring all calls of duty and honor as the dealth with the likes of Wild Bill Hickok, Geronimo, Kit Carson, Crazy Horse, and George Custer...and reaching his moment of supreme inglory and fear under fire at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Yes, Flashman was back in the thick of things, making the kind of history you willl never learn in school.

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Review:

Praise for the Flashman series
"Hilariously funny."--The New York Times Book Review

"Great dirty fun!"--Grand Rapids Press

"The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time... Moves from one ribald and deliciously corrupt episode to the next... Wonderful and scandalous."--Publishers Weekly

"Raises dastardliness to the level of an art... One of the most amusing and sardonic novels I have ever read!"--Omaha World

"As irreverent and picaresque as Tom Jones and always more dramatic... Flashman is a one-man demolition squad!"--Chicago Today

"Marvelously entertaining... A delight!"--Providence Journal

From the Back Cover:

What was Harry Flashman doing on the slopes of Little Bighorn, caught between the gallant remnant of Custer’s 7th Cavalry and the withering attack of Sitting Bull’s Braves? He was trying to get out of the line of fire and escape yet again with his life (if not with his honour) intact after setting the American West by its ears. Here is the legendary and authentic West of Mangas Colorado and Kit Carson, of Custer and Spotted Tail, of Crazy Horse and the Deadwood Stage, gunfighters and gamblers, eccentrics, scoundrels and, of course, Indian belles, dusky beauties, enthusiastic widows and mysterious adventuresses; this seventh volume of 'The Flashman Papers' shows the West as it really was. Terrifying!

“Flashman is the greatest thing to come down the pike since Horatio Hornblower packed up his flag”
CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“The Flashman books bristle with action...and they are very, very funny. The seventh Flashman is as fresh as the first”
THE TIMES

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0452264871
• ISBN 13: 9780452264878
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480