Jingo by Terry Pratchett

While I've enjoyed every Terry Pratchett book I've read, I think Jingo has to rank near the top, possibly the best one Pratchett wrote.  As with his others, it depicts the foibles of human interactions, this time it's war over a piece of soggy, seaweed-covered speck of land, an island that suddenly rises from the sea half-way between the countries of Ankh-Morpork (home of the good guys) and Klatch (home of the nasty foreigners).  People in both countries get pumped up for war by accusing the ...