George MacDonald Fraser · 1999 · survival

Three of Flashman's later escapades - a plot at the Congress of Berlin and a scandal at the baccarat table among them - of which the longest, mapped here, is his unwilling part in the Zulu War of 1879, from the massacre at Isandlwana to the desperate defence of Rorke's Drift.

1. 1
   London

   Where Flashman is bundled off to the Cape as the Zulu War flares up.

2. 2
   Cape Town

   The great southern port and gateway to the war in Natal.

3. 3
   Durban

   The Natal harbour from which the columns marched into Zululand.

4. 4
   Isandlwana

   The hill where a British column is annihilated, and nearby Rorke's Drift is held against the odds.