This volume is about the politics of weapons research and the horror of their actual use.
The Small Back Room Summary
The Small Back Room by Nigel Balchin
A true classic of war literature Equally famous as a film 'His theme is of intense and irresistible interest' - New Statesman Filled with underlying tension, which mounts to an almost unbearably dramatic climax
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), and Darkness Falls from the Air. He died in 1970.
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