An Ice-cream War [electronic resource]
William Boyd2013
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'As ambitious as it is remarkable. Balances on seesaws of innocence and
violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' The Times
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'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!'
British soldier, East Africa, 1914
On the Western Front millions are being slaughtered. But in East Africa a
ridiculous and utterly ignored campaign is being waged - one that continues
after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell the participants to stop.
As the conflict sweeps up Africans and colonials, so those left at home and
those fighting abroad find themselves unable to escape the tide of history
bearing down on them.
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'A towering achievement' John Carey
'Compulsively readable' Blake Morrison, Observer
'Funny, assured, a seriocomic romp. A study of people caught in the side pockets
of calamity that dramatizes their plights with humour, detail and grit' Harper's
Main title:
An Ice-cream War [electronic resource] / William Boyd
Author:
William Boyd, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Penguin, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (384 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780141924595
Language:
English
BRN:
435935
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