An Ice-cream War

<p><b>'As ambitious as it is remarkable. Balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' </b> <i>The Times</i><br><i>_____________________________<br></i><br><i>'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!'</i><br><i>British soldier, East Africa, 1914</i><br><br>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.<br><br>As 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.<br><br><i>_____________________________<br></i><br><b>'A towering achievement' </b> John Carey<br><br><b>'Compulsively readable' </b> Blake Morrison, <i>Observer</i> <br><br><b>'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'</b> <i>Harper's</i></p> <p><b>'As ambitious as it is remarkable. Balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' </b> <i>The Times</i><br><i>_____________________________<br></i><br><i>'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!'</i><br><i>British soldier, East Africa, 1914</i><br><br>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.<br><br>As 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.<br><br><i>_____________________________<br></i><br><b>'A towering achievement' </b> John Carey<br><br><b>'Compulsively readable' </b> Blake Morrison, <i>Observer</i> <br><br><b>'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'</b> <i>Harper's</i></p>