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"Forward, the Light Brigade"
Was there a man dismayed?
Indeed there was. As the British cavalry prepared to launch themselves against the Russian guns at Balaclava, Harry Flashman was not so much dismayed as terrified. How Flashman, the bullying poltroon of Tom Brown's Schooldays, came to Balaclava
and beyond, is the subject of this fourth volume of his scandalous memoirs: his confrontation of destiny with Lord Cardigan and the Light Brigade is one of the most brilliantly narrated and panic-stricken episodes of his career. But the Crimea was only the beginning:
beyond lay the snowbound wastes of the great Russian slave-empire, torture and death from relentless enemies, headlong escapes, savage tribal hordes to right of him, passionate and beautiful females to left of him, and finally that other almost unknown but desperate war on the roof of the world, when India was the prize, and there was nothing to stop the
armed might of Imperial Russia but the wavering sabre and terrified ingenuity of old Flashy himself.
Was there a man dismayed?
Indeed there was. As the British cavalry prepared to launch themselves against the Russian guns at Balaclava, Harry Flashman was not so much dismayed as terrified. How Flashman, the bullying poltroon of Tom Brown's Schooldays, came to Balaclava
and beyond, is the subject of this fourth volume of his scandalous memoirs: his confrontation of destiny with Lord Cardigan and the Light Brigade is one of the most brilliantly narrated and panic-stricken episodes of his career. But the Crimea was only the beginning:
beyond lay the snowbound wastes of the great Russian slave-empire, torture and death from relentless enemies, headlong escapes, savage tribal hordes to right of him, passionate and beautiful females to left of him, and finally that other almost unknown but desperate war on the roof of the world, when India was the prize, and there was nothing to stop the
armed might of Imperial Russia but the wavering sabre and terrified ingenuity of old Flashy himself.