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It began as a sudden strange fancy8230Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time8230And now she8217s enlisted in the army and is searching for her lost brother.But there8217s a war on. There8217s always a war on. And Polly and her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thick of it without any training and the enemy is hunting them.All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee. Well8230they have the Secret. And as they take the war to the heart of the enemy they have to use all the resources of8230the Monstrous Regiment.8216Not since Evelyn Waugh8217s novel Officers and Gentlemen has conflict faced such thoroughly cutting questioning8230 A great piece of writing akin to Jonathan Swift8217 Daily Express8216You ride along on his tide of outlandish invention realizing that you are in the presence of a true original among contemporary writers a fantasist who loves naff humour and silly names and yet whose absurd world is at heart a serious portrait of the jingoistic fears that keep us at each other8217s throats8217 The Times8216It8217s powerful stuff and one of his best8217 StarburstILLUSTRATION BY PAUL KIDBY The Discworld goes to war in this fanatsy book. His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction Mail On Sunday «
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