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Original Title:	Flashman and the Tiger (The Flashman Papers, #11)
ISBN:	0385721080 (ISBN13: 9780385721080)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Flashman Papers #11, Flashman #12
Characters:	Harry Paget Flashman, Sebastian Moran

Flashman and the Tiger (Flashman Papers #11) Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

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For the first time in four years comes a new book in George MacDonald Fraser's long-running series chronicling the adventures of Sir Harry Paget Flashman. Eleventh in the series, Flashman and the Tiger features not one, but three stories of international intrigue that find the fictional Flashman thrown headlong into historical events around the world.

This time out Flashman is thwarting an attempted assassination of Austria's Emperor Franz Josef ("The Road to Charing Cross"); getting to the bottom of the Tranby Croft gaming scandal–and the Prince of Wales' involvement in it ("The Subtleties of Baccarat"); and, in the title story, impacting the Zulu war while hunting down a longtime enemy. At once meticulously faithful to fact and wildly fanciful, Flashman and the Tiger is an educational romp through the annals of history; thirty years after he began the series, Fraser is at the top of his game.

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Title	:	Flashman and the Tiger (Flashman Papers #11)
Author	:	George MacDonald Fraser
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	November 6th 2001 by Anchor (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Adventure. Humor

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I've been dreading reaching the end of the Flashman books and this is it - the last one. All reviewers will say things like "of their time" but I've loved the combination of historical accuracy and the ridiculous scrapes Flashman gets into. Will restart the series again in a few years time ......

Unlike most of the rest of the series, which are novels, this book includes a novella and two short stories. In each, Flashman is inserted into events the author did not devise, although the last of these is not a historical event, but a short story of Conan Doyle.The novella, The Road to Charing Cross, covers a now-obscure attempted assassination of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria in 1880. Of course, Flashman blunders into the plot and foils it, thereby delaying the start of WWI by almost 35

Three highly amusing stories. The Road to Charing Cross, though short by Flashman standards, clocks in at 200 pages and is longer than many novels. It brings a Flashman into contact with a second-generation enemy and features an excellently horrifying confrontation scene with the villain. The Subtleties of Baccarat takes the Tranby-Croft scandal for its foundation and proposes a superbly ingenious explanation of the truth which both pleases and disturbs old Flashy. The title story is a little



Three unconnected stories: the first relating how Flashman is dragooned into preventing the assassination of Franz-Josef and preventing (well, postponing) WWII; the second revealing the truth about the Tranby Croft affair (which I've never heard of; a noble was caught cheating at cards); and the third, unusually, plunges Flashman into the world of Sherlock Holmes as he attempts to kill the best shot in India, Tiger Jack Moran.It has all the usual ingenious weaving of fictional drama using real

This was an excellent return to form. Fraser wrote 3 stories, which kept the tedium from some prior books down. The addition of Col. Moran, Sherlock Holmes, and Watson in the third story was a blast--the best of what the Flashman series brings. The other two stories are fun as well. Full of intrigue and saucy women and some colorful international characters. Some characters from the past--or their relatives--come into play as well. The best book since the first three.

Some aspects of this one were just hilarious (e.g. the wonderful Holmes parody..), but unfortunately the reference/note-function was incorrectly set up in this particular kindle version of the book, which meant that it was in most cases not possible to 'jump' directly from the text to the (often very funny) references. I was unfortunately more bothered by this than I'd have thought I'd be. But this one is, despite the fact that it's a slightly non-standard Flashman book, definitely not to be