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Ice-Cream War (Collins Dictionary and Grammar) (French Edition)
Bill Buford (Ed.)
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Description for Ice-Cream War (Collins Dictionary and Grammar) (French Edition)
Paperback. Follows the fortunes of several wildly different characters - including an expat farmer and a young English aristocrat - as they are swept up in the fighting in German East Africa during the First World War, their lives converging amid battle, betrayal, love, comedy and tragedy. Series: Penguin Decades. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 196 x 27. Weight in Grams: 294.
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Penguin Decades
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241953563
SKU
V9780241953563
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About Bill Buford (Ed.)
William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana and grew up there and in Nigeria. His first novel, A Good Man in Africa (1981), won the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham Prize. His other novels include An Ice Cream War (1982, shortlisted for the 1982 Booker Prize and winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Stars ... Read more
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