Editing Monday's Warriors

{{Short description|1990 historical novel by Maurice Shadbolt}}

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{{Infobox book
| isbn              = 0-87923-915-8
| pub_date          = February 1, 1992
| publisher         = [[Godine]]
| author            = [[Maurice Shadbolt]]
| image             = Monday's Warriors.jpeg
}}

'''''Monday's Warriors''''' is a 1990 historical novel by New Zealand author [[Maurice Shadbolt]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=1992-03-15 |title=Monday's Warriors |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/Monday-s-Warriors-Maurice-Shadbolt/pid=927027 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-10-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1991-12-15 |title=Monday Warriors |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/maurice-shadbolt/mondays-warriors/ |access-date=2024-10-05 |website=[[Kirkus Reviews]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1994-10-03 |title=Mondays Warriors by Maurice Shadbolt |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780879239152 |access-date=2024-10-05 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]]}}</ref> It is part two of his New Zealand Wars trilogy.<ref name="readnz">{{citation|title=Maurice Shadbolt - Writer's Files|language=en|work=Read NZ Te Pou Muramura|access-date=2024-02-03|url=https://www.read-nz.org/writers-files/writer/shadbolt-maurice|archive-date=3 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203065144/https://www.read-nz.org/writers-files/writer/shadbolt-maurice|url-status=live}}</ref>

Set in mid-nineteenth century New Zealand, the story is a semi-fictionalized account of [[Titokowaru's War]], told from the perspective of [[Kimball Bent]].<ref name=readnz/>  Bent was an historical individual born in the [[United States]], but had enlisted in the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[army]], where he was eventually posted to the [[Taranaki Region|Taranaki]] region of colonial New Zealand.  Bent [[desertion|deserted]] and joined up with a local [[Māori people|Māori]] chief of the [[Ngā Ruahine]] ''[[iwi]]'', where he became accepted as a member of the local tribe.  In 1867, Bent joined other Ngāti Ruanui led by [[Tītokowaru]] in their war against the colonists in [[Taranaki]].

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-02-16-bk-4340-story.html Review in the ''Los Angeles Times'']

[[Category:1990 novels]]
[[Category:Novels set in New Zealand]]
[[Category:Novels set in the 19th century]]
[[Category:Novels by Maurice Shadbolt]]
[[Category:Works about Māori people]]
[[Category:Novels set during the New Zealand Wars]]
[[Category:Māori literature]]


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