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Celebrated Victorian bounder, cad, and lecher, Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., returns to play his (reluctant) part in the Taiping Rebellion in the eighth amount of the critically-acclaimed Flashman Papers. Regrettably in China in 1860 lots of everyone was based on Flashman: the English vicar's daughter along with her freight of opium; Lord Elgin; the Emperor's ravishing concubine; and Szu-Zhan, the feminine bandit colossus, as practised in the arts of love as in the-art of battle. They certainly were to not realize that behind his Victoria Cross, Flashman was a foundation charlatan and coward. They took him at face-value, while China seethed through the bloodiest civil war ever, and he took them for several he might, and the British and French armies compromised their method to one's heart of the Forbidden City.