An ice-cream war
Title:
An ice-cream war
Author:
Boyd, William, 1952-
ISBN:
9780241970751
Publication Information:
London : Penguin Books, 2014.
Physical Description:
xiii, 395 p. : ill. ; 18 cm
Series:
Penguin essentials
Penguin essentials.
Series Title:
Penguin essentials
Penguin essentials.
General Note:
Originally published: 1982.
Abstract:
Millions die on the Western Front but in East Africa a quite different war is being waged - one with little point and which is so ignored that it will carry on after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell both sides to stop.
Genre:
Subject:
| World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- Africa, East -- Fiction. |
| Historical fiction. |
Summary:
Millions die on the Western Front but in East Africa a quite different war is being waged - one with little point and which is so ignored that it will carry on after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell both sides to stop.