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The Small Back Room
Nigel Balchin
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Description for The Small Back Room
Paperback. A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of the Second World War. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FJMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of the Second World War. Sammy Rice is a weapons scientist, one of the 'back room boys' of the Second World War. A crippling disability has left him cynical and disillusioned - he struggles with a drink problem at home, and politics and petty pride at work. Worse still, he fears he is not good enough for the woman he loves. The stakes are raised when the enemy begin to drop a new type of booby-trapped bomb, causing many casualties. Only Sammy ... Read more
A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of the Second World War. Sammy Rice is a weapons scientist, one of the 'back room boys' of the Second World War. A crippling disability has left him cynical and disillusioned - he struggles with a drink problem at home, and politics and petty pride at work. Worse still, he fears he is not good enough for the woman he loves. The stakes are raised when the enemy begin to drop a new type of booby-trapped bomb, causing many casualties. Only Sammy ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474601160
SKU
V9781474601160
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Ref
99-10
About Nigel Balchin
Nigel Balchin was born in 1908 and graduated in Natural Science from Cambridge University. During the Second World War he worked as a psychologist in the personnel section of the British War Office, before becoming Deputy Scientific Advisor to the Army Council. He wrote numerous books, including How to Run a Bassoon Factory (under the pseudonym Mark Spade), ... Read more
Reviews for The Small Back Room
One of the hopes of British novel-writing . . . A writer of genius
John Betjeman Perhaps the most successful British author to emerge during the war
SATURDAY EVENING POST
One of the best writers, and certainly one of the best stylists, to come out of the war years
Michael Powell He can always be relied ... Read more
John Betjeman Perhaps the most successful British author to emerge during the war
SATURDAY EVENING POST
One of the best writers, and certainly one of the best stylists, to come out of the war years
Michael Powell He can always be relied ... Read more