Flash for Freedom! by George MacDonald Fraser
A series of novels featuring Flashman, the character from "Tom Brown's Schooldays". They concern his life after expulsion from Rugby School in the late 1830s and are a sequence of memoirs in which the arch-cad reviews, from the safety of old age, his exploits in bed and battle. The author has written many Flashman novels and numerous films including "The Three Musketeers", "The Four Musketeers" and the James Bond film "Octopussy".