An Ice-Cream War

Name: An Ice-Cream War
ISBN: 9780375705021

William Boyd, Giles Foden

1982·384 pages

Historical Fiction

Booker Prize (1982) · Nominee

“the finest storyteller of his generation”
— Sebastian Faulks

An Ice-Cream War was the debut novel of William Boyd. It 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.

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