Harry Pearson (1)
Auteur de A Tall Man in a Low Land: Some Time Among the Belgians
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Harry Pearson, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
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Crédit image: http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/Authors/P/255
Œuvres de Harry Pearson
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- Nom canonique
- Pearson, Harry
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- United Kingdom
- Pays (pour la carte)
- United Kingdom
- Lieux de résidence
- Northumberland, England, UK
- Professions
- chef
author
journalist
writer
broadcaster - Courte biographie
- Harry Pearson has produced six books, contributed to a
dozen more, written a weekly sports column in the Guardian
for ten years and helped make the football magazine When
Saturday Comes half-decent for nearly two decades. When not
painting toy soldiers, building a Wild West town in 1/72 scale or
feverishly trying to work out how many more Macedonian
phalangites he needs to finish before he can restage the Battle
of the Granicus, he spends his time staring wistfully into
space wondering where the years have gone. He lives in
Northumberland. Contrary to all previous assertions, he does
not own a spinet.
Harry Pearson (2), MA, FIMechE, FRAeS, MBIM, was awarded an Open Scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford in 1932, and gained a first-class honours degree in Physics in 1935. He was employed by British Celanese and Standard Telephones and Cables before joining Rolls-Royce at Hucknall in 1940 as a Project Engineer on exhaust systems. In 1943, he became Performance Engineer, Gas Turbines, at Barnoldswick, transferring to Derby in 1946 as Chief Performance Engineer. In 1949 he was appointed Chief Research Engineer, becoming Chief Engineer, Performance and Research in 1960. In 1962 Harry pearson became Assistant Director of Engineering for the Aero Engine Division and a year later became Director of Personnel. Prior to 1971 when he became Assistant Group Technical Director, he served as Engineering Methods Advisor. He retired from the Company in 1976. He is the author of the Rolls-Royce and the Rateau Patents, Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust Technical Series No.1 (1989). ISBN: 0 9511710 8 9.
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- Œuvres
- 14
- Membres
- 435
- Popularité
- #56,232
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 15
- ISBN
- 53
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 1
It is an account of his arm's length love affair with the Second World War and military matters in general. That love affair is expressed through the medium of a) British war comics, b) plastic model kits (mainly Airfix) and c) table-top wargaming. In amongst the anecdotes from his two childhoods - the one he had as a boy and the one he is now living through as an adult (allegedly) - he inserts a lot of social history of 1950s and 1960s Britain, plus a lot of history of the model soldier business.
World War 2 was the defining event for my father and others of his generation. It was reflected in the popular culture of comics, books, tv shows and films for possibly the following twenty years or more. Pearson maps this out and shows how it turned his generation, the "baby boomers" of the 1950s and 60s, into a generation obsessed with military modelling of some sort or another, I am of that generation; and I remember my junior school friends all being equally obsessed with modelling aircraft, tanks and ships. Pearson has written an account of all our childhoods that is both funny and true.
The same goes for his portrait of the wargaming community. The characters he illustrates are typical to most specialist interests and many readers will be able to identify the personalities and fill in their own selection of names known to them. I particularly identified with the final line of his acknowledgements, where he names all the people he's traded miniature figures with or faced across a wargames table, ending with "...several dozen blokes named Dave."… (plus d'informations)