# Brothers In War

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- Book: [Brothers In War](https://www.bookquiver.com/e-v-thompson/brothers-in-war) ([Brothers In War.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/e-v-thompson/brothers-in-war.md))
- Authors: [E. V. Thompson](https://www.bookquiver.com/e-v-thompson)
- Publisher: Sphere
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0551-906-9
- Published: 2012-07-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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, 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. In Brothers in War, E. V. Thompson returns to his acclaimed Retallick saga, immersing the family in the upheaval of the First World War and, through them, creating a captivating tale of love and war, loyalty and betrayal, loss and adventure that weaves its way from Cornwall to the uncharted territory of the depths of Africa - and an eventful conclusion in Cornwall once more.