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Flashman in the Peninsula

By: Robert Brightwell
Narrated by: Henry Clore Harrison
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Summary

This is the third installment in the memoirs of the Georgian Englishman, Thomas Flashman, which were recently discovered on a well-known auction website. Thomas is the uncle of the notorious Victorian rogue, Harry Flashman, whose memoirs have already been published, edited by George MacDonald Fraser. Thomas shares many of the family traits, particularly the ability to find himself reluctantly at the sharp end of many major events of his age.

While many people have written books and novels on the Peninsular War, Thomas Flashman's memoirs offer a unique perspective. They include new accounts of famous battles, but also incredible incidents and characters almost forgotten by history. Flashman is revealed as the catalyst to one of the greatest royal scandals of the 19th century, which disgraced a prince and ultimately produced one of our greatest novelists. In Spain and Portugal, he witnesses catastrophic incompetence and incredible courage in equal measure. He is present at an extraordinary action where a small group of men stopped the army of a French marshal in its tracks. His flatulent horse may well have routed a Spanish regiment, while his cowardice and poltroonery certainly saved the British army from a French trap.

Accompanied by Lord Byron's dog, Flashman faces death from Polish lancers and a vengeful Spanish midget, not to mention finding time to perform a blasphemous act with the famous Maid of Zaragoza. This is an account made more astonishing as the key facts are confirmed by various historical sources.

©2014 Robert Brightwell (P)2017 Henlow Publishing Ltd

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Not a patch on the original.

I loved the original books by GMF and was hoping that these would carry on in a similar style unfortunately this has not been the case. The narrator would have been better suited to reading Jackanory as his tone and inflection is all wrong for this type of book. The story has very little of Flashman in it. It is more of a dry historical account of the Peninsula war. At one point there is even a shameless plug for the authors own website. It was shortly after this that I gave up and I’m now returning the book for a refund credit.

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Enjoyed since I have read original series many times,thought I would give it a go

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A worthy ancestor for Sir Harry

The death of George MacDonald Fraser robbed his many faithful readers of more episodes in his hugely successful “Flashman” series. What we have here is not more about Sir Harry Flashman, but a spin-off (homage?) series about his equally caddish, cowardly, and successful uncle. Does it work? This is my first experience of Thomas Flashman but I’ll say “so far so good”.
It’s not perfect, there is a somewhat cloned feel to it, and some anachronistic language I doubt GMF would have slipped into. But the character is there as is the historical research and the ability to bring them together in an entertaining tale. I’ll stick with Thomas and hope he proves as engrossing as Harry did.
The narration, while satisfactory, is not as good as it should be. The delivery for the narrating Flashman is uneven, sometimes he sounds so languid it’s as if he’s ready to doze off. And the narrator doesn’t seem to have the command of different accents for the various characters that a book narrator should have. Campbell was especially irritating to this Scot as his accent meandered unconvincingly all over Scotland with the occasional foray into rural England!

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