'Trying Times' is a story based on the fortunes of two young women Meseret and Mahlet. It is based on their experience of love and war at a young age. The writer through the two girls introduces us to the Second Ethio-Italian War and the first victory of the Allies (USA, Britain, France and USSR) in Second World War in East Africa. James Frood, a history teacher in King's College, Auckland, New Zealand wrote, "Wilbur Smith's character in his novel, Cry Wolf, about the invasion of Abyssinian war, expresses a 'romantic' and simplified view of the conflict. 'Mussolini has all the guns, aircraft...
'Trying Times' is a story based on the fortunes of two young women Meseret and Mahlet. It is based on their experience of love and war at a young age....
