Flashman and the DragonThe eighth volume of the old soldier's memoirs, in which Harry Flashman, that jewel in the crown of Queen Victoria's Empire who turned out to be the most glorious and Flashy fake, finds himself in China, smack in the middle of the Taiping Rebellion. |
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