{"product_id":"9780241953563","title":"An Ice-cream War","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Boyd, William \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 04\/08\/2011,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 416 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780241953563,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'As ambitious as it is remarkable. Balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror'  The Times'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!'British soldier, East Africa, 1914On 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the conflict sweeps up Africans and colonials, so those left at home and those fighting abroad find themselves unable to escape the tide of history bearing down on them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A towering achievement'  John Carey'Compulsively readable'  Blake Morrison, Observer 'Funny, assured, a seriocomic romp. A study of people caught in the side pockets of calamity that dramatizes their plights with humour, detail and grit'  Harper's\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":34465158692908,"sku":"9780241953563","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780241953563.jpg?v=1759663110","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780241953563","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}