Brothers in War - SIGNED
Author(s): E.V. Thompson
SECONDHAND BOOKS | General Fiction
1915: Ben Retallick is asked by a War Office friend to provide two traction engines for a secret expedition attempting to take two gunboats overland from Cape Town to Lake Tanganyika - more than 3,000 miles - to wrest control of the lake from the Germans. He sends engines with young Ruddlemoor as the driver/engineer who meets a Portuguese East African nurse and takes her side against a group of white racist south Africans. Meanwhile Antonia St Anna is influential in having Ben released, when he is arrested on circumstantial evidence provided by a business rival and accused of being pro- German...
2006. A trade paperback first edition in very good condition. This copy has been SIGNED by the author to the half title page.
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