The Small Back Room
$21.59
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
8 December 2015
Summary
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 has the know-how to diffuse it - but as he comes face to face with …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474601160 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474601162 |
| Author: | Nigel Balchin |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 8 December 2015 |
| Weight: | 186g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Cassell Military Paperbacks |
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One of the hopes of British novel-writing … A writer of genius
The missing writer of the forties
A superb storyteller - SUNDAY TIMESA writer of geniusBalchin writes about timeless things, the places in the heartAbout The Author
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), and Darkness Falls from the Air. He died in 1970.
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