Brothers In War Signed

Author: E.V. Thompson

Stock information

General Fields

  • : $20.00 AUD
  • : 9780316727570
  • : Sphere Books
  • : Sphere
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • : 20.0
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • : books

Special Fields

  • :
  • :
  • : E.V. Thompson
  • :
  • : Paperback
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
Barcode 9780316727570
9780316727570

Local Description

2006. A trade paperback first edition in very good condition. This copy has been SIGNED by the author to the half title page.

Description

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...