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  • The Speedicut Papers: Book 1 (1821–1848)

    Flashman’S Secret

    by Christopher Joll ...
    The Speedicut Papers recounts in very frank detail the life, loves, and adventures of Jasper Speedicutcharmer, sexual libertine, reluctant hero, and friend of the self-styled brigadier general Sir Harry Flashman, VC. Comprising a nine-volume series of linked adventures and anecdotes in memoir format, The Speedicut Papers lifts the lid from a veritable cesspit of Victorian and Edwardian upper-class ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Spoils of War

    The Treasures, Trophies & Trivia of the British Empire

    by Christopher Joll ...
    Over the last seven hundred years the United Kingdom has acquired a staggering array of treasures as a direct result of its military activities – from Joan of Arc’s ring to the Rock of Gibraltar to Hitler’s desk.Spoils of War describes these spoils and how they came to be acquired as well as telling the tales of some of the extraordinary (and extraordinarily incompetent) men and women, now mostly ... Read more

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  • The Speedicut Papers Book 5 (1871–1879)

    Suffering Bertie

    by Christopher Joll ...
    As the subtitle implies, Book 5 of The Speedicut Papers is largely concerned with Speedicuts unsought role as a part-time courtier to Prince Albert Edward, The Prince of Wales, whilst at the same time he tries to track down the traitor in the British establishment. Along the way he witnesses the battle of Isandlwana, is present at Rorkes Drift and is framed for the death of the Prince Imperial. ... Read more

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  • The Speedicut Papers Book 9 (1900–1915)

    Boxing Icebergs

    by Christopher Joll ...
    In this, the final volume of the memoirs of Jasper Speedicut, the old soldier and courtier is deeplyand often hilariouslyinvolved in the 1900 siege of the Peking legations, the death and funeral of Queen Victoria, the final days of Oscar Wilde, the removal to safety of the personal correspondence of the Dowager Empress of Germany, the sinking of RMS Titanic, the start of the First World War, and ... Read more

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  • The Speedicut Papers Book 2 (1848–1857)

    Love & Other Blood Sports

    by Christopher Joll ...
    Book 2 of The Speedicut Papers continues the first hand account of the life, loves and adventures of Jasper Speedicut: charmer, sexual libertine and reluctant hero. It is also a unique account of events in the British Empire and beyond, comprising a series of linked adventures and anecdotes which, when taken together, comprise a fascinating insight into many of the half-remembered or wholly ... Read more

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  • The Speedicut Papers Book 4 (1865–1871)

    Where Eagles Dare

    by Christopher Joll ...
    Two main storylines run through Book 4 of The Speedicut Papers: Speedicuts quest to identify the traitor within the British establishment, who has already occasioned him considerable personal problems, and his involuntary and often disastrous involvement in the geopolitical affairs of the Emperors of Austria, Mexico and the French and the future Emperor of Germany. Speedicuts behind-the-scenes ... Read more

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  • The Speedicut Papers Book 8 (1895-1900)

    At War with Churchill

    by Christopher Joll ...
    Book 8 of The Speedicut Papers is primarily concerned with Speedicuts involvement with the young Winston Churchill on the North-West Frontier of India, in the Sudan at the Battle of Omdurman and in the Second Boer War, during which Speedicut is captured along with Churchill. When not acting as nursemaid to Britains future greatest Prime Minister, Speedicut plays a central role, invariably with ... Read more

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  • The Speedicut Papers Book 3 (1857–1865)

    Uncivil Wars

    by Christopher Joll ...
    Uncivil Wars opens in 1857 and takes the reader through the horrors of the Indian Mutiny to China and the Second Opium War, during which Speedicut is captured and tortured in the notorious Board of Punishments. Back in England, Speedicut remarries and he and his new wife spend their honeymoon in the United States, where they get caught up in the American Civil War along with Scarlett OHara, Ashley ... Read more

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  • The Speedicut Memoirs: Book 2 (1918–1923)

    Fallen Eagles

    by Christopher Joll ...
    Book 2 of The Speedicut Memoirs picks up Charles Speedicut’s story from the point in 1918 at which he is about to leave for the Crimea to rescue the Dowager Empress of Russia, a mission which he foresees will be the most dangerous of his life to date. But Fate intervenes and sends him back to the Middle East, where he has a hand in the end of the war in Syria, followed by a series of adventures ... Read more

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  • The Speedicut Memoirs

    War or Peace

    by Christopher Joll ...
    As Europe see-saws between war and peace, Charles Speedicut finds himself involved in a series of clandestine missions for both the British Secret Intelligence Service and the equally secretive Brotherhood of the Sons of Thunder. From the concentration camp at Dachau, where Book 5 of The Speedicut Memoirs opens, via Whitehall, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bavaria, Switzerland and France, Speedicut is ... Read more

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  • The Speedicut Memoirs

    Some Like It Shot

    by Christopher Joll ...
    In Book 3 of The Speedicut Memoirs, in addition to meeting many of the early movie stars of Hollywood, readers will discover the true facts about a number of previously unexplained events in the second quarter of the twentieth-century including the reason why Princess Fahmy was cleared of the murder of her husband; the truth about the forging and publishing of the Zinoviev Letter, the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Speedicut Memoirs: Book 1 (1915–1918)

    Russian Relations

    by Christopher Joll ...
    Following the death of Colonel Sir Jasper Speedicut in 1915, the Speedicut saga continues with the publication of the memoirs of his son, Charles.It is clear from his hair-raising exploits in pre- and post-revolutionary Russia and in the sands of Arabia, interspersed with adventures in a whole range of other people’s bedrooms, that Charles Speedicut inherited not just his name from his father… ... Read more

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