Men At Arms

Second book of the original and best CITY WATCH series, now reinterpreted in BBC''s The Watch

''Funny, wise and mock heroic . . . The funniest and best crafted book I have read all year'' Sunday Express

The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .
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''What''s so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work''s already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place.''

The City Watch needs MEN! But what it''s got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman... most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race