Flashman on the MarchHarry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Browns schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents horsemanship, facility with foreign languages and fornication. A reluctant military hero, Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th century, despite trying his utmost to escape them all. Many have marvelled at General Napier's daring 1868 expedition through the treacherous peaks and bottomless chasms