Ice-cream War: Penguin Essentials An

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William Boyd's sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of war, 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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780241970751
Published: August 2014

Number of pages: 416
Width: 111 mm
Height: 181 mm
Depth: 25 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd