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A Funny Place to Hold a War

by Max Hennessy Book 2 in the Shadows of War Collection series.

First published 1984

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Ginger Donnelly travels to Sierra Leone while investigating possible Nazi sabotage and witnesses a large seaplane crash during a night journey by canoe. When another aircraft is destroyed along the same route, the incidents no longer look accidental. Donnelly must uncover an operation hidden far from the war’s most familiar fronts before further attacks can be carried out.

By setting a sabotage investigation in Sierra Leone, the novel shifts attention from Europe to Britain’s West African wartime infrastructure. Air routes, remote installations and imperial communications make the colony strategically significant despite its distance from the main battlefronts.

Historical Periods

World War II1939–1945 CE

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Espionage Historical Thriller War Fiction

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