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Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett Ebook Men at Arms currently available for review only, if you need complete ebook Men at Arms please fill out registration form to access in our databases Download here >> Mass Market Paperback:::: 400 pages+++Publisher:::: HarperTorch; Reprint edition (May 27, 2003)+++Language:::: English+++ISBN-10:::: 0061092193+++ISBN-13:::: 978-0061092190+++Product Dimensions::::4.2 x 1 x 6.8 inches++++++ ISBN10 0061092193 ISBN13 978-0061092 Download here >> Description: A Young Dwarfs DreamCorporal Carrot has been promoted! Hes now in charge of the new recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork, Discworlds greatest city, from Barbarian Tribes, Miscellaneous Marauders, unlicensed Thieves, and such. Its a big job, particularly for an adopted dwarf.But an even bigger job awaits. An ancient document has just revealed that Ankh-Morpork, ruled for decades by Disorganized crime, has a secret sovereign! And his name is Carrott...And so begins the most awesome epic encounter of all time, or at least all afternoon, in which the fate of a city —indeed of the universe itself!—depends on a young mans courage, an ancient swords magic, and a three-legged poodles bladder. I just finished re-reading this novel, which remains high in my esteem. My review will contain some spoilers, so avoid it if you dont like those. Its main theme is the final success of integrating city minorities, starting with a dwarf, a troll and a woman, into the all-human-male Watch. Dwarfs and trolls are ancient enemies from the mountains, now moving in droves into Discworlds biggest city, Ankh-Morpork. Putting two of them together as a police team seems insoluble, and would be but for Corporal Carrot. The new watchwoman is also a werewolf (actually werewolfhound), and her kind of minority is shunned by just about everyone--except Carrot--but Angua no longer bites people and is trying to be a vegetarian! There are numerous subplots, skilfully woven into the main story--the insanity of extreme royalist snobbery; the growing affection between Sam Vimes and Sibyl Ramkin, his temporary backslide into alcoholism, Sibyls steadfastness and (at the end of the book) a happy beginning; the reluctantly heroic talking mutt, Gaspode, who reminds me of Huckleberry Finn (he refuses to be sivilized). Most relevant to our own problems is the worlds only gonne (the earliest English spelling of gun) invented by Leonard of Quirm. Supposedly it was destroyed, but instead was put away in a private museum and stolen. Like our own guns, it has a murderous personality of its own that infects its users, but Discworld is luckier than our world. At the storys end the gonne is destroyed by Carrot--and there are no others in existence. Men at Arms in Science Fiction and Fantasy pdf books Men at Arms At Arms Men 5" x 11") dimensions, it lays flat durably while writing on it. used copy and as described. 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