Harry Flashman, the infamous bully from *Tom Brown's Schooldays*, has reinvented himself as an unlikely recipient of the Victoria Cross. His survival through the 19th century’s most brutal military campaigns relies on th...Harry Flashman, the infamous bully from *Tom Brown's Schooldays*, has reinvented himself as an unlikely recipient of the Victoria Cross. His survival through the 19th century’s most brutal military campaigns relies on three specific skills: expert horsemanship, a natural gift for foreign languages, and a relentless pursuit of fornication. Though he is hailed as a military hero, Flashman is actually a coward who spends his career attempting to flee the very battles that inadvertently make his reputation.