Appearances in Fiction
There is a depiction of General "Elphy Bey" Elphinstone and the retreat from Kabul in George MacDonald Fraser's historical novel Flashman (1969), the first volume of the Flashman Papers series of novels.
Elphinstone is also briefly referenced in David Weber's science fiction novel, In Death's Ground (1997), the third novel in that author's Starfire series of novels.
Read more about this topic: William George Keith Elphinstone
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