mass market paperback, 416 pages
English language
Published Aug. 31, 2004 by HarperTorch.
In the twenty-eighth Discworld novel the Discworld goes to war.It began as a sudden strange fancy... Polly 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 time... And now she's enlisted in the army, and searching for her lost brother.But there's a war on. There's 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. Well... They have the Secret. And as they take the war to the heart of the enemy, they have to use all the resources of... the Monstrous Regiment.
This is one of Pratchett's better ones. It's not set within one of the series, but takes up folklore themes that might find their way into the repertoires of Fairport Convention or Pentangle. And which are also extremely on point. Send a copy to JK Rowling.
