Posted by Robert Hill on January 20, 2008 at 23:32:54 from 91.105.54.173 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Re: FLASHMAN posted by Adam Quinan on January 19, 2008 at 12:46:00:
He is a mildly entertaining way of learning some unusual aspects of history.
I must admit I haven't yet got round to reading any of the Flashman books (except the original Tom Brown's Schooldays) but I have read reviews of them, heard radio programmes about them, heard part of a radio serialisation of one of them, and in recent weeks read or heard two or three obituaries or appreciations of George Macdonald Fraser.
One thing I picked up from these is that his historical research was first rate, and that many of the most seemingly implausible events and outrageous characters in the Flashman books were real.