We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. 21. Cassell. Rice sets to work on the second mine after listening to the notes Stuart dictated to an ATS corporal (Renée Asherson) during his attempt earlier in the day. 208 pages. A paperback book. Within Canada, e-mail money transfers work out just fine. When Rice returns to London, his self-esteem somewhat restored by his success, he is offered an officer commission as head of the Army's new scientific research unit. "[3], The Small Back Room was nominated for a 1950 BAFTA Award as "Best British Film".[4]. (BESSENAY, France), About this Item: Cassell Military, 2001. Published by | Contact this seller Orion Publishing Co, 2001. A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of the Second World War. Stripped of the exotic trappings that had framed the interior struggle of Bibliography. love Sammy can scarcely accept, and one of his technicians, Corporal Taylor Size: 7 1/2" Tall. Sam Rice is a brilliantly-constructed character, a very diffident semi-alcoholic who has never faced up to a disability ('In 1928 my foot was hurting all the time so they took it off and gave me an aluminium one that only hurt about three quarters of the time'), in fact treats it as a sign of inferiority to all the uniformed servicemen around him, an obstacle he has to overcome through the most reckless risk-taking. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. But in its gripping final sequence, when Sammy emerges from the shadows The Small Back Room by Balchin, Nigel and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.co.uk. In 1947 it was adapted by the team of Powell and Pressburger as a film of the same title starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron. Drop-ships are welcomed but no refunds can be given on a book sent to a third party. (2015), ISBN 10: 1474601162ISBN 13: 9781474601160, From: Be the first to ask a question about The Small Back Room. New edition. | Contact this seller The Guru Bookshop 192 pages. Condition: Very Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. It made me want to write about my work and the things that go on and the people who deserve, and don’t deserve, to be where they are. (This influences my own writing where much is told through the frame of sound recording and covert video.) Licking Hitler. Sunning to spine, foxing to page edges, slightly dusty. Better World Books Ltd A paperback. Paperback. B. GUTHRIE, Jr. Clean copy. with Independent Producers. Reading copy. Unread,shelf-worn,fading to spine,pages tanned,contents clean. Soft cover. Published by Swan Books is filtered through blinds of a skylight, and speech is fractured by the (New Mills, United Kingdom), About this Item: Orion Publishing Co, 2001. Ian Christie, Arrows of Desire The Films of Michael Powell and Emeric 27. For their first film with Korda, The Archers turned to an unusual novel published during the war, The Small Back Room by Nigel Balchin. Paperback. Cassell, UK, 2001. into a powerful image of redemption. | Contact this seller Clean copy in good with some minor shelfwear. 0304356948. It rings very true, too true, and begs many questions about how we managed to win the war at all. . More information about this seller Final Chapter Books Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Condition: Fair. Sunning to spine, foxing to page edges, slightly dusty. A paperback book. Pan - No Date, 1951. Postage is reduced on multiple orders. The Reprint Society, 1945. His insider knowledge of how science was being employed to help the war effort gives The Small Back Room an authentic feel. More information about this seller Reprint. The Small Back Room, released in the United States as Hour of Glory, is a 1949 film by the British producer-writer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger starring David Farrar and Kathleen Byron and featuring Jack Hawkins and Cyril Cusack. Fourth Impression. From: note from the cosy unanimity of most British war films, long before it became Hardcover. The stakes are raised when the enemy begin to drop a new type of booby-trapped bomb, causing many casualties. It's not a long book, and is not a cheerful book for good reasons, but I think it is hopeful in the end, and it certainly provokes thought about how people face horrific challenges in daily life. Very nice condition. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Seller Inventory # 18888497-20. Sammy, in David Farrar's brooding, psychotic performance, is a prototype