George MacDonald Fraser · 1973 · overland

Sent to the Crimea, Flashman rides in the catastrophe of the Charge of the Light Brigade, is captured, and is carried deep into Russia and beyond; embroiled in a Tsarist scheme to invade India, he flees across the deserts and khanates of Central Asia in a desperate race to reach the British frontier first.

1. 1
   London

   Where Flashman is bundled into the cavalry and shipped to the Crimean War.

2. 2
   Balaclava

   The Crimean port above which he is swept into the doomed charge of the Light Brigade, and afterwards taken prisoner.

3. 3
   Fort Raim

   The Russian fort on the Aral Sea, at the heart of the Tsar's designs on India, from which Flashman breaks away eastward.

4. 4
   Peshawar

   The North-West Frontier of British India, the goal of his headlong flight across Central Asia.