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For the very first time in four decades comes a brand new book in George MacDonald Fraser's long-running series chronicling the adventures of Sir Harry Paget Flashman. Eleventh in the series, Flashman and the Tiger features not just one, but three tales of international interest that discover the Flashman tossed headlong into historic activities all over the world. This time around out Flashman is thwarting an attempted assassination of Austria's Emperor Franz-Josef ("The Street to Charing Cross"); dealing with the underside of the Tranby Croft gambling scandal–and the Prince of Wales' participation inside it ("The Subtleties of Baccarat"); and, in the title tale, affecting the Zulu battle while tracking down a long-time adversary. At once thoroughly devoted to reality and extremely whimsical, Flashman and the Tiger is definitely an informative romp through the annals of history; Fraser is at the most truly effective of his sport, thirty years after he started the sequence.