An ice-cream war

An Ice-Cream War was the debut novel of William Boyd who would go on to be recognized as ´the finest storyteller of his generation´ (Sebastian Faulks). 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.