“I’m just a storyteller, an entertainer, but George is something much more than that,” Cornwell says. “There is in Flashman a wisdom, a deeper truth, that you probably won’t find in Sharpe. I tend to make my characters heroic, whereas George, because he has ‘seen the elephant’, knows better than that. Those who’ve never been to war think it’s a boy’s game and a big adventure. George knows that what it’s really about is terror and fear and horrible accidents.”
The thinking woman’s scoundrel, The Sunday Times, January 6, 2008.
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