Rating: 
Summary: The 20th Century had Flashman and Hornblower
Review: What can the 21st Century possibly do to top them? Frazer's Flashman is a heroic coward. The plots run the gamut of the British Army experience of the 19th Century (plus some American visits thrown in to add to the reading experience). Royal Flash is less a story of the British Army than one of our favorite coward, who manages to be a mirror image of a European prince Otto Von Bismark wishes to destroy.Frazer's wit and historical research for Royal Flash is up to his usual great standard. The book is hilarious and informative.
Rating:
Summary: Flashman, Prince of Denmark
Review: Yup, the plot's implausible. Nope, it doesn't matter. This is a comic novel, folks. It's a brilliant one, too. The second, and so far, the best, Flashman novel. Plausibility be damned, as Flashy would say. Fraser takes the pieties of "Tom Brown Schooldays" and the romantic farrago of "The Prisoner of Zenda" and makes of them something altogether hilarious. There is a movie adaptation, directed by Richard Lester. He doesn't apparently get the joke.
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