The Small Back Room

@2@@20@A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of the Second World War.@21@@3@@2@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.@3@@2@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.@3@@2@Can he, at last, prove his worth and put his demons to rest?@3@

Summary

A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of the Second World War.

Product details

• Authors: Nigel Balchin
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 10.09.2015
• EAN: 9781474601160
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-0116-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 15 mm
• Series: CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, Second World War fiction