Synopses & Reviews
A sudden burst of nationalism has swept over Polly Perks causing her to cut off her hair, don her brother’ s clothes and join the local regiment so she can fight for her country. But there’ s only one problem -- she has no idea who she’ ll be fighting or what she is really fighting for. And why do they want her to have a rolled-up pair of socks anyway? War teaches you a lot, she finds, when it turns out that you joined -- the Monstrous Regiment.