The Small Back Room
Author | : Nigel Balchin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1949 |
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Author | : Nigel Balchin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1949 |
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Author | : Nigel Balchin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Author | : Nigel Balchin |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2015-09-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1474601170 |
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 has the know-how to diffuse it - but as he comes face to face with real danger, all his old inadequacies return to haunt him. Can he, at last, prove his worth and put his demons to rest?
Author | : Garrison Keillor |
Publisher | : Studio |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"This book combines text and image to reveal the real-life origins of the place where "the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children above average." Keillor meditates on the enduring culture of the county and on the years he spent there as a young writer and an outsider. And a short story of Lake Wobegon, "October," appears here for the first time in print."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Nigel Balchin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : Shimon Peres |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2019-09-05 |
Genre | : Arab-Israeli conflict |
ISBN | : 9781474604215 |
In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. Peres would indeed go on to serve the new state as prime minister, president, foreign minister, and the head of several other ministries. In this, his final work, finished only weeks before his passing, Peres offers a long-awaited examination of the crucial turning-points in Israeli history through the prism of having been a decision-maker and eyewitness. Told with the frankness of someone aware this would likely be his final statement, No Room for Small Dreams spans decades and events, examining pivotal moments in Israel's rise. Peres explores what makes for a great leader, how to make hard choices in a climate of uncertainty and distress, the challenges of balancing principles with policies, and the liberating nature of imagination and unpredicted innovation. In doing so, he not only charts a better path forward for his beloved country but provides deep and universal wisdom for younger generations who seek to lead - be it in politics, business or the broader service of making our planet a safer, more peaceful and just place.
Author | : Edward Schuyler Chamberlayne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Political fiction |
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Author | : Bea Brommer |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2015-08-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004293329 |
To my dear Pieternelletje describes a ten-year period in the lives of Pieternella van Hoorn and her grandfather Willem van Outhoorn, former governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. Eleven years old, Pieternella left for Amsterdam and the only contact possible was by mail. Numerous letters have survived and combined with contemporaneous documents, most of them never published before, they offer a vivid and clear picture of their private life and feelings, forming a most welcome addition to official VOC-history. Van Outhoorn not only acted as Pieternella’s mentor while she tried to adjust to her new but unknown fatherland, but also sent her numerous exquisite presents, the greater part of which has been traced and described in full, thus offering new insight in the cultural history of Asia.
Author | : David Edgerton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2005-12-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139448741 |
A challenge to the central theme of the existing histories of twentieth-century Britain, that the British state was a welfare state, this book argues that it was also a warfare state, which supported a powerful armaments industry. This insight implies major revisions to our understanding of twentieth-century British history, from appeasement, to wartime industrial and economic policy, and the place of science and technology in government. David Edgerton also shows how British intellectuals came to think of the state in terms of welfare and decline, and includes a devastating analysis of C. P. Snow's two cultures. This groundbreaking book offers a new, post-welfarist and post-declinist, account of Britain, and an original analysis of the relations of science, technology, industry and the military. It will be essential reading for those working on the history and historiography of twentieth-century Britain, the historical sociology of war and the history of science and technology.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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Sammy Rice was the army's finest bomb disposal officer until he was injured in the war and left with a false foot. Now part of a specialist back room team, he dismantles the booby-trapped devices being dropped by Nazi bombers. However, embittered by life, he feels like a failure. Haunted by the past, he drowns his sorrows in whiskey. His life is descending into disarray when the news comes; a bomb has been discovered. Faced with the biggest challenge of his career, can Sammy find redemption?