The Small Back Room

Nigel Balchin

Original title: The small back room

earliest edition we have, 1974 Obscure Press, 2006 paperback 192 pages

Twentieth century classics

A classic 20th-century novel. Sammy Rice, a weapons scientist and one of the "backroom boys" of World War Two, suffers from a crippling disability that has left him cynical, disillusioned, and riddled with self-doubt. But, when the enemy begins dropping a new form of booby bomb, causing terrible casualties, Sammy alone has the know-how to defuse it. Face to face with real danger, he must confront his inadequacies - i...

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The Small Back Room paperback · 2006 · Obscure Press · 192 pages · 9781846647758
The Small Back Room paperback · 2001 · Cassell · 192 pages · 9780304356942
The small back room edition · 1985 · Oxford University Press · 192 pages
The small back room. edition · 1984 · Collins
The small back room edition · 1974 · Lythway Press · 380 pages

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