Mouse that Roared

Mouse that Roared

by Leonard Wibberley
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In his new novel the author of Mrs. Searwood's Secret Weapon has written a fearless and honest—and highly entertaining—report on the officially hushed-up catastrophe of 1956. While the State Department mumbles and historians.continue to carp over details—certain facts are inescapable. For instance:

Is it true that the Duchy of Grand Fenwick declared open war on the United States—and won? Yes.

How? By capturing the quadium bomb. Led by one Tully Bascomb, the twenty-odd longbowmen of the Grand Fenwick Expeditionary Force invaded New York and quietly made off with the thing that could "blow the whole North American continent off the face of the earth."

Just how big is Grand Fenwick? Five miles by three, with some six thousand citizens, a river, three valleys, a mountain and castle, and a lovely young ruler. Duchess Gloriana XII. Its sole product is Pinot Grand Fenwick, considered by connoisseurs to be one of the world's superlative wines.

Why did the Fenwickians go to war? They tasted poison—pure economic poison, labeled "Pinot Grand Enwick, California, U.S.A." 

Who kept things quiet? Actually, everybody. Especially the government clerk who had a good chuckle over the declaration of war. He got it wet while canoeing on the Potomoc, then lost it behind his radiator.

In this inside account of a political pandemonium in London, Paris, Washington and Moscow, Leonard Wibberley again mixes sermon with spoof in the style that made Mrs. Seawood's Secret Weapon such a delight. Moreover, his toast to Tully Bascomb, Gloriana XII and other Grand Fenwick itself—and as everyone knows, in vino veritas.

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