{"id":465,"date":"2007-09-15T15:30:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T19:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/books\/?p=465"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:05:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T22:05:34","slug":"flashman-on-the-march-george-macdonald-fraser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/2007\/09\/flashman-on-the-march-george-macdonald-fraser\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashman on the March &#8211; George MacDonald Fraser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/books\/flashman-on-the-march.jpg\" width=\"155\" height=\"235\" alt=\"Cover of Flashman on the March\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"small\"><strong><br \/>\nFlashman on the March<br \/>\nGeorge MacDonald Fraser<br \/>\n317 pages including notes<br \/>\npublished in 2005<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>Flashman on the March<\/cite> is the latest novel to be published in the <cite>Flashman<\/cite> series, six years after <cite><a href=\"flashman-and-the-tiger.html\">Flashman and the Tiger<\/a><\/cite>. This long time between books is worrisome, especially as George MacDonald Fraser isn&#8217;t getting any younger, having just turned 81&#8230; There are still quite a few blind spots in Flashie&#8217;s career Fraser still needs to chronicle and it would be disappointing if he died without doing so.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut let&#8217;s worry about that later; for the moment there&#8217;s a new Flashman novel and all&#8217;s well with the world. Ever since I first read <cite>Flashman and the Mountain of Light<\/cite> &#8212; the one Flashman novel the local library had in stock after John Ostrander praised these novels in the last <cite>Suicide Squad<\/cite> letters page &#8212; I&#8217;ve always looked forward in anticipation to any Flashman novel I could get my hands on. I&#8217;ve never been disappointed, nor was I this time. <cite>Flashman on the March<\/cite> is as good as any of the Flashman novels and old Flashie is at his caddest best again.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/books\/flashman-on-the-march.html\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flashman on the March George MacDonald Fraser 317 pages including notes published in 2005 Flashman on the March is the latest novel to be published in the Flashman series, six years after Flashman and the Tiger. This long time between books is worrisome, especially as George MacDonald Fraser isn&#8217;t getting any younger, having just turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[216,214,215,858],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-fiction","tag-flashman","tag-flashman-on-the-march","tag-george-macdonald-fraser","tag-historical-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}