The New Men
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Yellowed , price clipped
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Clean text.
A landmark work of mid-twentieth-century British fiction, The New Men is the seventh installment in C.P. Snow's celebrated Strangers and Brothers sequence, set against the tense and morally charged backdrop of Britain's wartime atomic weapons program. The novel chronicles the lives of scientist-bureaucrats navigating the collision between scientific ambition and political responsibility, centering on Lewis Eliot and his brother Martin as they work within a secret government research establishment modeled on the real-world efforts that led to the atomic bomb. Snow presents the ethical anguish of men who understand the destructive power they are helping to create, yet press forward under the weight of duty, loyalty, and personal ambition. Written with Snow's characteristic cool precision and psychological acuity, the narrative illustrates how power, conscience, and human frailty intersect within the corridors of institutional life. A compelling portrait of the scientific community at a pivotal moment in history, it remains one of the most searching fictional examinations of the moral cost of modern warfare.
Author: C. P. Snow
Format: Hardback
Published: 1954, Macmillan & Co Ltd
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Yellowed , price clipped
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Clean text.
A landmark work of mid-twentieth-century British fiction, The New Men is the seventh installment in C.P. Snow's celebrated Strangers and Brothers sequence, set against the tense and morally charged backdrop of Britain's wartime atomic weapons program. The novel chronicles the lives of scientist-bureaucrats navigating the collision between scientific ambition and political responsibility, centering on Lewis Eliot and his brother Martin as they work within a secret government research establishment modeled on the real-world efforts that led to the atomic bomb. Snow presents the ethical anguish of men who understand the destructive power they are helping to create, yet press forward under the weight of duty, loyalty, and personal ambition. Written with Snow's characteristic cool precision and psychological acuity, the narrative illustrates how power, conscience, and human frailty intersect within the corridors of institutional life. A compelling portrait of the scientific community at a pivotal moment in history, it remains one of the most searching fictional examinations of the moral cost of modern warfare.