Monday's Warriors: A NovelWar stories don't come much wilder or woolier than this rollicking, riveting story of Kimball Bent, born in Eastport, Maine, and dragooned into Her Majesty's army in the middle of the last century. Sent off to subdue the restless Maori in distant New Zealand, Bent finds himself at the wrong end of too many court-martials and deserts his regiment, becoming the unlikely hero and chief strategist of a Maori band that fights the British to a standstill in what proves to be the bloodiest and most terrifying of the colonial wars. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 4 |
Section 3 | 14 |
Section 4 | 23 |
Section 5 | 30 |
Section 6 | 45 |
Section 7 | 62 |
Section 8 | 85 |
Section 13 | 147 |
Section 14 | 174 |
Section 15 | 191 |
Section 16 | 205 |
Section 17 | 216 |
Section 18 | 240 |
Section 19 | 256 |
Section 20 | 276 |
Section 9 | 108 |
Section 10 | 115 |
Section 11 | 127 |
Section 12 | 138 |
Section 21 | 298 |
Section 22 | 301 |
Section 23 | |
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