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29 de oct. de 2013 · But I've a nasty habit of, when wanting to know something now, flicking further on into the book. This is true of anything I read. Sometimes I'll find I've already read certain scenes two or three times before I've even gotten near that section of the book.Yet there's something about Men at Arms that invites me to keep reading straight through.
- Terry Pratchett
And someone armed and dangerous has been getting ideas about power and destiny and lost kings, committing a string of seemingly random murders across the city. The new recruits will need to learn fast ... Men At Arms is the second book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
27 de may. de 2003 · Men at Arms. Mass Market Paperback – May 27, 2003. by Terry Pratchett (Author) 9,729. Part of: Discworld (41 books) See all formats and editions. A Young Dwarf's Dream. Corporal Carrot has been promoted! He's now in charge of the new recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork, Discworld's greatest city, from Barbarian Tribes, Miscellaneous Marauders ...
- Terry Pratchett
Welcome to Discworld Meet Commander Sam Vimes and the City Watch . Sam Vimes is an old-fashioned copper. He, and the City Watch he commands, started in the gutter (one outside a pub), and Vimes takes care not to forget it, wearing extra thin boots so he can feel the streets of his city as he proceeds along them, cigar in hand, gimlet eyes peeled not just for crime, which being extremely ...
- Terry Pratchett
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 ExpressThe 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 . . ._____
Men at Arms is the first book in Waugh’s brilliant trilogy, Sword of Honour, which chronicles the fortunes of Guy Crouchback. The second and third volumes, Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender, are also published in Penguin. Sword of Honour has recently been made into a television drama series, with screenplay by William Boyd.
Men-at-arms formed the core troops of the Italian condottiere companies from the 14th. to 16th. centuries. Although the man-at-arms always remained essentially a mounted soldier, in the 14th century, they often fought on foot, following the example of English mercenaries who, from the second half of the century, commonly fought there.
