Chapman Pincher (1914–2014)
Auteur de Their Trade Is Treachery
A propos de l'auteur
Henry Chapman Pincher was born in Ambala, India on March 29, 1914 to British parents. He received a degree in botany and zoology at King's College London. He taught at the Liverpool Institute high school for boys from 1936 until 1940. During World War II, he served as a tank gunner in the Royal afficher plus Armoured Corps and then became involved in rocket research. In 1946, he became the defence, science and health editor for the Daily Express. He worked there until 1979 becoming famous for his pursuit of traitors and supposed traitors in the British secret service. He wrote more than 30 books during his lifetime including The Breeding of Farm Animals and Their Trade Is Treachery. He died on August 5, 2014 at the age of 100. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Chapman Pincher
Too Secret Too Long: The Great Betrayal Of Britain's Crucial Secrets, And The Cover-Up (1984) 79 exemplaires
Too Secret Too Long 2 exemplaires
A study of fishes 1 exemplaire
Daily Express Science Annual No. 1 1 exemplaire
The Breeding of Farm Animals 1 exemplaire
The Giantkiller 1 exemplaire
Daily Express Science Annual No. 2 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Pincher, Harry Chapman
- Date de naissance
- 1914-03-29
- Date de décès
- 2014-08-05
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Ambala, India
- Lieu du décès
- Kintbury, England, UK
- Études
- Darlington Grammar School
King's College, London - Professions
- journalist
fisherman - Relations
- Pincher, Billee Chapman (wife)
- Organisations
- Daily Express
- Prix et distinctions
- Carter Gold Medal (King's College London) 1935
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 28
- Membres
- 477
- Popularité
- #51,683
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 51
- Langues
- 3
That's a pity, because it's a splendid piece of hokum written in a way that makes it oddly believable. A British scientist discovers the secret of eternal youth and markets it as Juvenex. What happens next can be for the reader to discover, but it's a rattling good read.
The book was written, one assumes, mainly as an entertainment and it is a good one, but there is an unstated message here: that we do not always know what we are doing. But Pincher's real skill here is to set the story in an entirely familiar world so that we suspend disbelief very easily - a trick used to equal effect in a much more famous work of science fiction, Orwell's 1984. If you find this in your local Oxfam shop for a quid, grab it quick.
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