Eine Frage der Zeit

The long-seller by Alex Capus is now available from dtv. An incredible yet true story: In 1913, Kaiser Wilhelm II commissions three northern German shipyard workers to dismantle a steamship and reassemble it at Lake Tanganyika, south of Kilimanjaro. The monarch aims to emphasize his imperial ambitions with this endeavor. At the same time, Winston Churchill tasks the eccentric yet lovable Lieutenant Colonel Spicer Simson with transporting two gunboats overland through half of Africa to Lake Tanganyika. When World War I breaks out, Germans and Brits find themselves facing each other on its shores. No one wants to, but everyone must engage in war against the picturesque backdrop of the tropical lake. They are all prisoners of the time in which they live, and each has their own way of coping with it.