New Releases by George Macdonald Fraser

I hele den engelske hær findes der ingen, der er bedre til at fremstå så heltemodig og nobel som kujonen og svindleren Harry Flashman. I 1860 deltager bangebuksen stikmod sin vilje i urolighederne i Kina, hvor han fungerer som spion og sendebud mellem den kinesiske og den fransk-engelske hær. Alligevel finder han tid til at få andre i fedtefadet, mens han slipper uskadt væk, og får fanget op til flere af de skørter, han er så ferm til at jage.

Life and death in Nine Section, a small group of hard-bitten and (to modern eyes) possibly eccentric Cumbrian borderers with whom the author, then nineteen, served in the last great land campaign of World War II, when the 17th Black Cat Division captured a vital strongpoint deep in Japanese territory, held it against counter-attack and spearheaded the final assault in which the Japanese armies were, to quote General Slim, torn apart.

Verdens største slyngel, skørtejægeren, kujonen, spillefuglen, krigshelten, levemanden – kort sagt: Harry Flashman – er igen i aktion. Efter en bordelbatalje møder han den skønne Lola Montez, og det lykkes ham at krænke hendes kavaler, fyrst Otto von Bismarck, grundigt. Og vor helt sætter sit umiskendelige præg på historiens gang, da han involveres i intrigerne omkring de slesvig-holstenske hertugdømmer. Den britiske forfatter George MacDonald Fraser (1925-2008) er bedst kendt for sin serie af historiske romaner om den kujonagtige levemand og antihelt Harry Flashman, der gør tvivlsom og ufortjent karriere i den britiske hær i 1800-tallet. Han står også bag en række filmmanuskripter blandt andet til James Bond-filmen "Octopussy", "Red Sonja" og "De tre musketerer".

“Piracy’s tried-and-true hallmarks—treasure, treachery, intermittent romance and high-seas mutiny” from the Scottish author of the Flashman Papers series (The Wall Street Journal). George MacDonald Fraser was famed for his legendary series, featuring the incorrigible knave Harry Flashman. In the colorful standalone novel Captain in Calico, a never-before-published literary find, Fraser introduces another real-life anti-hero: Captain John Rackham, called “Calico Jack,” an illustrious eighteenth-century pirate who marauded the Caribbean seas. On a tranquil evening in the Bahamas, Calico Jack, long wanted on counts of piracy, makes a surprise appearance at the Governor’s residence and asks for a pardon. A deal is brokered after Jack reveals the motive for turning himself in: love. When he last set sail from the Bahamas two years ago, Jack left behind a beautiful fiancée, and he hopes to win her back. But while Jack was off pirating, his beloved has become betrothed to a new man—the governor himself. It doesn’t take long for this truth to come to light, and after embarking on a new romance with famous Irish pirate Anne Bonney, Jack is quickly transformed back into a thieving captain in calico. With his trademark picaresque style, Fraser draws readers into the wild west of the British empire, where black sails prowl the waters and redemption can be found in the most unexpected places. “[An] energetic tale of piracy and peril . . . Suspenseful.” —Publishers Weekly

From humorist George MacDonald Fraser comes the funniest stories of an inept soldier, Private McAuslan, now collected in a single volume. The most disastrous soldier to ever serve in the British Army, Private McAuslan, J., the dirtiest soldier in the world (alias the tartan Caliban, or the Highland Division''s answer to the Peking man), first demonstrated his unfitness for service in "The General Danced at Dawn." He continued his disorderly advance, losing, soiling, and destroying his equipment, through the pages of "McAuslan in the Rough." The final story, "The Sheikh and the Dustbin," pursues the career of the great incompetent as he shambles across North Africa and Scotland, swinging his right arm in time with his right leg and tripping over his untied laces. Whatever he does and wherever he goes, Private McAuslan''s admirers know him as court-martial defendant, ghost catcher, star-crossed lover, and golf-caddie extraordinaire. Now, all of George MacDonald Fraser''s inimitable McAuslan stories are collected together in one glorious volume, for readers to gasp, giggle, and gawk at McAuslan''s misadventures. Whether map reading his erratic way through the Sahara by night, or confronting Arab rioters, McAuslan''s talent for catastrophe is guaranteed. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown''s schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents -- horsemanship, facility with foreign languages and fornication. A reluctant military hero, Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th century, despite trying his utmost to escape them all. "When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman" --Abraham Lincoln In China in 1860, a lot of people mistakenly put their trust in Flashman: the English vicar''s daughter with her cargo of opium; Lord Elgin in search of an intelligence chief; the Emperor''s ravishing concubine, seeking a champion in her struggles for power; and Szu-Zhan, the female bandit colossus, as practised in the arts of love as in the arts of war. They were not to know that behind his Victoria Cross, Harry Flashman was a base coward and a charlatan. They took him at face value. And he took them, for all he could, while China seethed through the bloodiest civil war in history and the British and French armies hacked their way to the heart of the Forbidden City...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown''s schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents - horsemanship, facility with foreign languages and fornication. A reluctant military hero, Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th century, despite trying his utmost to escape them all. What was Harry Flashman doing on the slopes of Little Bighorn, caught between the gallant remnant of Custer''s 7th Cavalry and the 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 his honour) intact. Here is the legendary and authentic West of Mangas Colorado''s Apaches, of Kit Carson, Custer and Spotted Tail, of Crazy Horse and the Deadwood stage, gunfighters and gamblers, scoundrels and Indian belles, enthusiastic widows and mysterious adventuresses. The West as it really was: terrifying!

Flashman, the notorious coward and blagard has come home to roost here in The Flashman Companion. Its rammed full of all the Flashy adventures you could want plus an interactive map so you can watch and listen to the man himself hop around the globe.

The last three books in George MacDonald Fraser’s uproarious bestselling Flashman series, now available in one ebook for the first time.

Books 4-6 in George MacDonald Fraser’s uproarious bestselling Flashman series, now available in one ebook for the first time.

This ninth volume of The Flashman Papers finds that history’s most unheroic hero, Sir Harry Flashman, is back in India, where his saga began. This time, our hero is sent by Her Majesty''s Secret Service to spy on the corrupt court of Lahore, on India''s Northwest Frontier. Flashy deals with a ravishing maharini and her equally sex-hungry maid, joins forces with an American adventurer with royal ambitions, and attempts to win the brightest jewel in England’s imperial crown at the cost of something he will never miss—namely, his honor.

“Flashman strikes again… Wonderful… hilarious.”—USA Today Lusting after a clergyman’s wife, smuggling opium to Hong Kong, coupling with an Amazonian woman river pirate, groveling before a ruthless warlord, and becoming the sexual plaything of the most beautiful and evil woman in the world, Harry Flashman, the supreme antihero of the Victorian era, is ready to rise to the occasion to matter what depths of dishonor he must plumb. In this uninhibited and uproarious adventure, Flashman is once again at his irascible best.

A game of cards leads Flashman from the jungle death-house of Dahomey to the slave state of Mississippi as he dabbles in the slave trade in Volume III of the "Flashman Papers". When Flashman was inveigled into a game of pontoon with Disraeli and Lord George Bentinck, he was making an unconscious choice about his own future - would it lie in the House of Commons or the West African slave trade? Was there, for that matter, very much difference? Once again Flashman''s charm, cowardice, treachery, lechery and fleetness of foot see the lovable rogue triumph by the skin of his chattering teeth.

Flashmans Traum von einem Sitz im Parlament wird durch einen Skandal gestört, der ihn zwingt, ins Ausland zu gehen. Sein Schwiegervater hilft - doch er schickt ihn auf ein Sklavenschiff. Im mörderischen Dschungel Dohomeys wird eine Ladung Sklaven übernommen und nach Amerika gebracht. Dort wird das Sklavenschiff aufgebracht und Flashman rettet sich mit Hilfe einer falschen Identität. In Amerika, wo er auf Abraham Lincoln trifft, gerät er zwischen alle Fronten, wird selbst zum Sklaven, zum Sklavenaufseher, zum Sklavenbefreier - kurz zu einem Helden der Freiheit. Ein abwechslungs- und temporeicher, spannender und mit viel Humor gewürzter historischer Roman.

In the spirit of Flashman and in the inimitable George MacDonald Fraser style comes a rousing story of prize fighting in the 19th century.

Die Anzeichen verdichten sich, doch niemand rechnet wirklich damit: Der Große Indische Aufstand, der auch Sepoy-Krieg genannt wird, bricht 1857 aus. Harry Flashman ist politischer Agent, eine Rolle, die ihm eigentlich gut gefällt, da sie ungefährlich erscheint und man keine Ergebnisse vorweisen muss. Aber wie üblich hat er sich verrechnet und er gerät in die Brennpunkte des Aufstandes. Er lernt die wunderschöne Rani Lakschmibai kennen und lieben, er ist beim Massaker von Kanpur dabei und trifft seinen Freund Ilderim, den Paschtunen. Spannend, abwechslungsreich und voller historischer Details, politisch gewohnt unkorrekt und mit viel Humor.

Die Anzeichen verdichten sich, doch niemand rechnet wirklich damit: Der Grosse Indische Aufstand, der auch Sepoy-Krieg genannt wird, bricht 1857 aus. Harry Flashman ist politischer Agent, eine Rolle, die ihm eigentlich gut gefällt, da sie ungefährlich erscheint und man keine Ergebnisse vorweisen muss. Aber wie üblich hat er sich verrechnet und er gerät in die Brennpunkte des Aufstandes. Er lernt die wunderschöne Rani Lakschmibai kennen und lieben, er ist beim Massaker von Kanpur dabei und trifft seinen Freund Ilderim, den Paschtunen. Spannend, abwechslungsreich und voller historischer Details, politisch gewohnt unkorrekt und mit viel Humor. George MacDonald Fraser wurde vor allem berühmt durch die Serie historischer Romane, den Flashman Manuskripten, deren 11 Bände von 1969 bis 2005 erschienen. Dabei handelt es sich um die fiktiven Memoiren von Sir Harry Flashman, einem hoch dekorierten britischen Offizier im Ruhestand, der auf seine Abenteuer zwischen 1840 und 1890 zurückblickt, die ihn unter anderem mit Bismarck, General Custer, Lola Montez und vielen anderen zusammengeführt hatte. Geboren wurde Fraser 1925, wurde Soldat und kämpfte in Burma. Danach wurde er Journalist, später Schriftsteller und Drehbuchautor (unter anderen "Die drei Musketiere" und den James-Bond-Film "Octopussy") in Grossbritannien und Kanada. Er starb 2008.

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.

The first in George MacDonald Fraser’s uproarious Flashman series and the classic they pay homage to available together for the first time in ebook format.

Der 17-jährige Harry Flashman wird in der Zeit des Viktorianischen Empire aus der Rugby School geworfen. Er startet eine erstaunliche Karriere beim Militär, die unverdient steil nach oben geht, denn er weiß: Bestimmte menschliche Fehler wie Dummheit, Arroganz und Engstirnigkeit sind militärische Vorzüge. Harry Flashman darf Elspeth, "das größte Flittchen, das je eine Matratze abgenutzt hat" heiraten (außerdem ist ihr Vater reich), doch wird er zu seinem Entsetzen nach Afghanistan versetzt. Beim Rückzug der Briten und verbündeten Inder aus Kabul überleben nur zwei - Harry ist einer davon. Harry macht sich natürlich aus dem Staub und schlägt sich selbst durch. Das endet in höchsten militärischen Auszeichnungen als "Held von Dschalalabad" und bei den Afghanen wird er als "Bloody Lance" geachtet (aufgrund eines weiteren Missverständnisses).

“An afternoon’s reading that’ll stick in the memory for long afterwards.Hooray for George MacDonald Fraser!”—The Spectator

Three of George MacDonald Fraser’s incomparable and hilarious novels featuring the lovable rogue, soldier, cheat, and coward: Harry Paget Flashman. Praised by everyone from John Updike to Jane Smiley, Fraser was an acknowledged master of comedy and satire, an unrivaled storyteller, whose craft was matched only by his impeccable historical research. And his greatest creation was, of course, Flashman. The novels collected here find our hero in the midst of his usual swashbuckling adventures of derring-do: fleeing adversaries in the First Anglo-Afghan War; meeting and nearly deceiving a young Abraham Lincoln in America; alternately impersonating a native Indian cavalry recruit and wooing women in India; and managing, whatever the circumstances, to keep his hero’s reputation unsullied. A must-have treat for the legions of dedicated Flashman fans, and a delightful introduction for those lucky enough to be encountering him for the first time.