Our Russian friends

‘And I learned a thing or two from our Russian friends — confuse, alarm, bewilder. If you haven’t got a good case, it’s worth more than dishonest juryman.’



Mr American, p.391, Pan Books, paperback edition 1982.


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Wasted days

The clever men were for driving on hard to Sevastopol, a bare twenty miles away, and with our cavalry in good fettle we could obviously have taken it. But the Frogs were too tired, or too sick, or too Froggy, if you ask me, and days were wasted, and the Ruskies managed to bolt the door in time.

Flashman at the Charge, p.74, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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Russian infantry

…the faro table was as crooked as a line of Russian infantry and a damned sight harder to beat.

Royal Flash, p.14, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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