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The burning sky
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- ISBN: 9780749040710 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0749040718 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource. - Publisher: London : Allison & Busby, 2011.
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| Subject: | Soldiers of fortune -- Fiction Illegal arms transfers -- Fiction Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 -- Fiction |
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Cal Jardine is a soldier of fortune. Forced to flee Hamburg after helping Jews escape Nazi Germany, he is recruited by a secretive British committee to smuggle guns from Rumania into Abyssinia. Taken to the Horn of Africa, the guns are transported over the harsh landscape, a slave traders' route full of danger, into the hands of the Ethiopian army. On his travels, Jardine acquires more baggage than he cares for, including a beautiful, but difficult, American woman in search of her archaeologist mother, a determined British reporter and a daredevil French flyer.&/p&&p&But the Ethiopian
