What was the book about a small country that declared war on a big country to get defeated and rebuilt, but the big country surrendered to the little guy? Did he write that or was it just a movie? My mother used to talk about it when I was very young.
That sounds like “The Mouse That Roared,” but that wasn’t by Orwell. The novel that was adapted to become the movie your mother probably saw was written by Leonard Wibberley.
The Mouse that Roared with beaufiul Jean Seberg..