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Dragooned into the British Army in the middle of the nineteenth century and shipped to New Zealand to fight the Maori, unlikely hero Kimball Bent finds himself leading a Maori band that fights the British to a standstill
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War 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.
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