- Fiction, Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Italy, fiction
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Wilbur Smith
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 420
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Heinemann, Chivers Audio Books
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780440114956
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“To Jake Barton, machinery was always feminine - with all the female's fascination, wiles and bitchery.”
Wilbur Addison Smith was a Northern Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries.
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