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	10/06 George is currently reading: Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea (Hardcover) by Noah Andre Trudeau bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	10/05 George is currently reading: Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel (Paperback) by Jonathan Safran Foer bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	05/25 George is currently reading: Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II (Hardcover) by Stanley G. Payne bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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October 09

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October 06

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Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea (Hardcover)
by Noah Andre Trudeau
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September 19

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Things Fall Apart (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
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September 16

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The Gypsy Morph (The Genesis of Shannara, Book 3)
by Terry Brooks

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September 14

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Flashman: A Novel (Flashman)
by George MacDonald Fraser

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George said: "The first book in what is almost certainly the finest series of historical comic novels ever written. Over the series, written over a 30 year period, Harry Flashman becomes one of Victorian England's most decorated military heros while in actuality h...more The first book in what is almost certainly the finest series of historical comic novels ever written. Over the series, written over a 30 year period, Harry Flashman becomes one of Victorian England's most decorated military heros while in actuality he's its most craven coward. There's scarcely anyone of importance in history that he doesn't eventually meet. The books heavily satirize Victorian society and morality. Flashman himself is not only a coward, but is also a bully, a scoundrel, a cheat, and a lecher, and only those things on his good days. While he revels in wallowing in the Garden of Earthly Delight, he invaribly pays heavily for his sins by winding up at virtually every British military disaster, and a few American ones as well, of the 19th Century, and it appears there were an astonishing number. "Flashman" and the rest of the books are highly accurate historically and heavily footnoted.

This book introduces Mr. Flashman, a character, borrowed or stolen perhaps, from one of Victorian England's most famous boy hero novels, "Tom Brown's School Days" where Flashman appears as one of Rugby's worst villians and greatest bullies of young stalwarts like Tom Brown and projects what he must have become after being tossed out of Rugby for drunkeness in "School Days". After convincing his father to pay for a commission in the calvary, he bounces from one problem to another before winding up in India and eventually in Afghanistan, where he is swept up in Britain's first Afghan war.

In the 1830's, England decided to indulge in a little regime change and set up a new king in Kabul, propping him up with British troops and English gold, before sending out one of its worst generals, Lord Elphinstone, to take command. Eventually, everything crumbles around them and the army decides to retreat out, on foot, in the winter, leading to one of England's greatest disasters, as only one man managed to return to India on his own, while thousands died in the snowy passes. In "Flashman", it turns out there were two. How he survives is a comic delight.

There are legions of Flashman fans across the world, particulary in expat communities. I've never been in a country where I failed to find them. However, be warned that these are among the least PC novels around in many respects, even by current standards, much less Victorian ones. ...less "

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Just what the title says, mac. Probably one of the only wars in history which came as closely to being a war of good versus evil (or was it? discuss!)...more

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8 days ago, 07:34AM

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from Isabella

8 days ago, 04:17AM

Hi George,

My word is as good as gold!! So thank you for your request.
I am looking forward to a “spicy and educational” friendship.
And of course these two will in time be part of our “friendship-details” as promised:)
Welcome on board.

Isabella....

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