Book 10: The Mouse That Roared by Leonard Wibberley
Book 10: The Mouse That Roared (The Duchy of Grand Fenwick #1).
Author: Leonard Wibberley, 1955.
Genre: Comedy. Political Satire.
Other Details: ebook. 283 pages.
In Leonard Wibberley's classic political satire, a tiny backwards country decides the only way to survive a sudden economic downturn is to declare war on the United States and lose to get foreign aid - but things don’t go according to plan. - synopsis from Goodreads.
I had read this classic Cold War satire when I was a teenager while the Cold War was still ongoing. At the time it provided light relief to what were real fears of nuclear war. So it was fun to revisit when it was chosen as the February selection for our reading group.
We all enjoyed it and discussed the issues the story highlighted and the historical background. While written sixty years ago it still worked well and provided plenty of comedy though in the time since the United States had certainly abandoned its policy of not invading small countries/ It is good to hear that many of the author's works are now being made available in ebook format to be discovered by new readers.
Cross-posted to 50bookchallenge.