It's been so long, I thought this was the one with the big wooden chickens. Was it even chickens? Anyway, I can't remember which one had big wooden possibly-chickens, but this isn't it. Still, feckin brilliant, eh? Somewhere along the way the Discworld books stopped being comic fantasy and became the most sublime modern satire, such that a dark continent rising from the sea is merely the impetus for a lot of action around two nations deciding to have a war because a war is overdue frankly, and any old excuse will suffice. Commander Vimes has other plans, it being his job to keep the peace, after all.