Talk:Book:Monstrous Regiment/Annotations
In fact The Lincolnshire Poacher seems to have been the official march of the 10th Foot of Lincolnshire, but why can't I search out any reference to the novelty hit of the fifties that used the tune to tell how "you'll never get rid of the bomp-bomp-bomp, no matter what you do"? OK, it was The Thing, by Phil Harris. It's always in there somewhere. --Old Dickens 15:12, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
The website of the American contingent of the Tenth of Foot (Bostonian Peeled Nuts) includes a wonderful page of songs of the era, including Polly Oliver - a rather different story from our Polly/Oliver's. --Old Dickens 17:59, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
I've still got it in my head that Polly and the girls are also a re-imagining of the "eternal soldier" types most famously used by Sven Hassel in his series of pulp-fictions about the 27th (Penal) Panzer Regiment in WW2. Although the first book in the series, Legion of the Damned, is itself a homage reworking of Erich-Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, updating the action to WW2 Nazi Germany and still using Remarque's original characters. A direct link back to Remarque's clasic anti-war novel - not to mention the clasic film made from it - might be wholly in keeping with Pratchett's intentions here.
- Major Clogston Oberst Hinka
- Lieutenant Blouse
- Sergeant Jackrum Oberfeldwebel Willi Baum, "The Old Man"
- Corporal Strappi - Sergeant Heide, the die-hard Nazi, snoop, and informer
- Polly Perks Fahnenjunker Sven Hassel
- Igor -
- Maladict - Corporal "By The Grace of God" Josef Porta
- Carborundum - Private "Tiny"