Brothers in War 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 than miles t
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 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 side1915 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 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.
A very well written book page turner albeit the title its a very light hearted book
I didnt want this saga to come to a endest eva saga I have read
My review of this,the final book in a nine book saga will be added later
Read at least once in the 80s / 90s and really enjoyed. Am well ready to re-read all his books.