Snooks made two mistakes. The first was to leave the mines of Australia to search for gold in the wrong area of Canada. The second was to travel across the USA during a Civil War when all he wanted to do was get home to England. In a moment of panic he compounded the second by using the name of his old school friend Flashman instead of his own. Rubbing shoulders with the high and the mighty, Snooks manages to wear two uniforms, have two different ranks in two different armies; encounter women with bizarre notions of bedroom etiquette; kill more than one general and lose the greatest battle of...