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SNOOKS - Flashman light
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Snooks (who may or may not be Charles Fortescue Thursby) is definitely not Flashman, a well-known hero of the Empire and Snooks' idol. Shipped off to Australia in 1843 by his father to avoid a scandal involving stolen church silver, Snooks finds himself 18 years later a most unwilling participant in the great events of the American Civil War.
From Saskatchewan to St. Louis, to Shiloh, Antietam and Gettysburg, he is used and abused by the famous - Fremont, Halleck, Grant, Van Dorn, Wild Bill Hickock and a host of others. After that, it gets worse.
Years later he writes his memoir. And in an effort to get it published sends it to his old Rugby school chum, Flashman with a plea for assistance. The manuscript disappears until 2006 when a South African farmer buys some furniture at auction.
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In Snooks North and South, our hero comes close to reaching England. In Snooks The Presidents' Man, he becomes an actor, a spy, escort to the fattest woman in the world, the death of one general and the saviour of another. Dodging bullets, razors and a determined set of assassins, Snooks manages to foil Presidents Lincoln and Davis - almost.
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​George MacDonald Fraser declared that there was no Flashman memoir of the Civil War because, "...by comparison, it's deadly dull."
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If you've wondered if that's the only reason why we don't have the story to enjoy, here are two books that provide a much better answer.
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Despite Snooks' very unfortunate nickname (and you can check Tom Brown's Schooldays - he's in there with Flashman), he experienced a Civil War that is anything but "dull".
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Take some cheese with that whine, pull up the two novels that Snooks declares to be truth; enjoy the fun and read the end-notes. This is pure history except for the made-up bits.
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