It is 1914. In a hotel room in German East Africa American farmer Walter Smithdreams of Theodore Roosevelt. As he sleeps a railway passenger swats at fliesregre... » 

It is 1914. In a hotel room in German East Africa American farmer Walter Smithdreams of Theodore Roosevelt. As he sleeps a railway passenger swats at fliesregretting her decision to return to the Dark Continent and her husband. Ona faraway English river bank Felix Cobb watches his brother bathe and curseshis sisterinlawtobe. And in the background of the worlds daily chatterrumors of an AngloGerman conflict the likes of which no one has ever seen.In An IceCream War William Boyd brilliantly evokes the private dramas of ageneration upswept by the winds of war. As the sons of the world match wits andweapons on a continent thousands of miles from home desperation makesbedfellows of enemies and traitors of friends and family. By turns comic andquietly wise An IceCream War deftly renders lives capsized by violencechance and the irrepressible human capacity for love. «