REBELS had captured the dam that supplied electricity to Kinshasa and turned off the lights in the Congolese capital. Now they were marching on the city. Panic reigned. Pro-government thugs were going ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Malcolm McDowell as Flashman in Royal Flash, directed by Richard Lester in 1975 - Alamy “I like film people, and their crazy trade ...

The novelist George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman adventure stories, has died aged 82, his publisher has said. The popular books saw womanising anti-hero Sir Harry Flashman, fight his way ...

Looking back over the nearly 40 years since I first found myself immersed in a Flashman story, perhaps the single most striking thing about the experience is the date. It somehow didn’t seem to “fit,” ...

George Macdonald Fraser, who has died aged 82, was the creator of Harry Flashman, one of the bright gems of the English comic novel. Fraser was already 44, and a long-serving journalist, when he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The series was first published in 1969 and centers on Sir Harry Paget Flashman, who first appeared as the bully in the influential ...

Dominic West has called for the “spectacularly politically incorrect” Flashman novels to be given the Hollywood film treatment and introduced to a new generation of readers. West said the books, by ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is an axiom of empires, even evil ones, that they must have a whiff of glamour about them. But it was a ...

San Francisco, CA - Classic Media's most popular characters, including Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends, Dick Tracy, Underdog, and George of the Jungle, are all set to expand their cartoon antics into fun ...