Paperback. Orange cover with black title.

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Snow published this in 1954 as part of his Strangers and Brothers series and many of the characters appear in earlier and later volumes. The book revolves around the wartime efforts to build a nuclear weapon and Snow considers in passing the morality of developing weapons of ‘mass destruction’ and the role of scientists in such activity. Snow returned to this issue in a later, and perhaps better known, volume – namely Corridors of Power. As usual with Snow, the public issues are intertwined with the personal, including the central character Lewis Eliot’s evolving relationship with his younger brother Martin. The book is a satisfying read albeit slightly dated.

Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow (15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980) was an English novelist and physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government. He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as Strangers and Brothers, and for “The Two Cultures”, a 1959 lecture in which he laments the gulf between scientists and “literary intellectuals”.