Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Shirking, running, diving into cover



If you’ve read my earlier memoirs you’ll know all about it — how by shirking, running, diving into cover, and shielding my quaking carcase behind better men, I had emerged after four campaigns with tremendous credit, a tidy sum in loot, and a chestful of tinware.



Flashman and the Dragon, p.10, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.



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