The Small Back Room (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS)

Balchin, Nigel

ISBN 10: 0304356948 / ISBN 13: 9780304356942

Published by Cassell, 2001

About this Item

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.

Seller Inventory # CHL1022506

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Small Back Room (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS)
• Publisher: Cassell
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0304356948
• ISBN 13: 9780304356942
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used; Good

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Synopsis

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 against 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.
But the enemy are dropping a new type of booby bomb, causing many casualties. Only Sammy has the know-how to defuse it - and as he comes face to face with real danger, a bomb which has blown apart braver and better men than he, all the old inadequacies return to haunt him...Can he, at last, prove his worth, and put his demons to rest?

About the Author

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.