The Mouse That Roared

The Mouse That Roared

The mouse that roared was originally a book written by Irish writer Leonard

Wibberley in 1955 about an imaginary country in Europe called the Duchy of

Grand Fenwick. The author uses the situation to mock the politics and world

situations at the time. Wibberley places his imaginary country in many ridiculous

situations, where it goes against several superpowers and wins.

The country Duchy of Grand Fenwick is tiny (3 miles by 5 miles) bordering

Switzerland and France in the Alps. Their country is based on a pre-industrial

economy which comes almost entirely on making Pinot Grand Fenwick wine.

In order for the country to change the dependency of their economy on their wine

they plan to go to war with the U.S. and lose in which case they would gain

foreign aid from the U.S. So they show up in New York city with army equipped

with bows and arrows. They show up and there is no on the streets due to a

nuclear drilling that cleared the streets. while wandering the streets trying to find

someone to surrender to they find a scientist a special dooms-day weapon that

can destroy the Earth, with the new discovery they decide to actually win their

war