An Ice-Cream War - Penguin Essentials

An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd's sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?''I think it would hurt a great deal.'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.As the conflict sweeps up natives and colonials, so those left at home and those fighting abroad find themselves unable to escape the tide of history bearing down on them.

ISBN:	9780241970751
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Books
Published date:	14 Aug 2014
DEWEY:	823.92
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	395
Weight:	230g
Height:	181mm
Width:	116mm
Spine width:	26mm

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