num_pages: 416
description: Primarily a gripping story of the men and women swept up by the passions of love and battle, William Boyd's magnificently entertaining novel also elicits the cruel futility and tragedy of it all.
language: English
title: An Ice-cream War
titlecomplete: An Ice-cream War
characters: Amory Holland, Liesl von Bishop, Charis Cobb, Philip Holland, Gilzean, Felix Cobb, Walter Smith, Gabriel Cobb, Wheech-Browning, Major Bilderbeck, Erich von Bishop
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, World War I, Africa, Literary Fiction, Military Fiction, War, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 3941
places: Africa, England, German East Africa, East Africa, British Empire
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
publisher: Penguin Books