Gee, rape sure is funny.
Yes, I'm being sarcastic.
Neat premise. Fraser lifted an anecdote from Thomas Hughe's Tom Brown's School Days about the expulsion of a student named Flashman for drunkenness and uses it as the beginning of the story of his anti-hero's cowardly and highly successful run as a professional soldier. Most of the action in this novel (there are several sequels) centers on Flashman's exploits in the British/India Company army of the 1840's in Afghanistan.
Like Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, this story taught me a lot about history.
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