Flashman At The Charge

Flashman at the ChargeSynopsis: The fourth packet of the Flashman Papers (1854--1855) picks up the memoirs of the celebrated soldier as England is moving towards war with Russia. Captain Flashman--a public hero of the Afghanistan campaign but, as he reveals, a private coward--seeks to avoid the coming storm by joining the Board of Ordnance in London.Flashman finds himself promoted to the rank of colonel and ordered to active service as an aide and guardian to the young Prince William of Celle, a...