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Jim Elgar is a young chemist struggling to find work in nineteen-thirties' Britain. He moves instead to the scientific world in Germany and finds himself perfectly placed to undertake top-secret work for the British war effort. His ensuing role in counter-espionage takes him on a high-speed spy-chase through Europe, only just ahead of the invading Nazis. The Invisible Victory is the story of cut-throat medical research and life-saving discoveries in the face of wide-scale suffering and death.
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Richard Gordon is best-known for his hilarious 'Doctor' books and the long-running television series they inspired. Born in 1921, he qualified as a doctor and went on to work as an anaesthetist at the famous St Bartholomew's Hospital, before a spell as a ship's surgeon and then as assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. In 1952, before leaving medical practice in 1952 to take up writing full time and embarking upon the 'Doctor' series. Many of these are based on these experiences in the medical profession and are all told with the rye wit and candid humour that have become his hallmark. They have proved enduringly successful and have been adapted into both film and TV. His 'Great Medical Mysteries' and 'Great Medical Discoveries' concern the stranger aspects of the medical profession, whilst 'The Private Life' series takes a deeper look at individual figures within their specific medical and historical setting. Clearly an incredibly versatile writer, he will, however, always be best known for his comic tone coupled with remarkable powers of observation inherent in the hilarious 'Doctor' series. 'Mr Gordon is in his way the P G Wodehouse of the general hospitals' - The Daily Telegraph. 'I wish some more solemn novelists had half Mr Gordon's professional skills' - Julian Symonds, Sunday Times
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Brilliant historical novel about the rise (and fall of Hitler) - oh, and the discovery of penicillin.
21 Sep 2010
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Richard (Doctor in Love etc) Gordon is a brilliant novelist. He always has a central character who's a doctor or scientist. His life is caught up with the vast and tragic events of the 20th century, and some kind of scientific discovery, but he's also a character with a story you care about. Here he's chemist John Elgar who happens to be in Germany when Hitler takes power. Meanwhile, in university, hospital and government departments, chemists and doctors are blundering towards the discovery of penicillin. Gordon does a lot of research but he drops it in at the right moment. The shape and colour of the cigarette packet, and the name of the brand - Wupperthal's strange layout and unique overhead railway - schoolteacher Gerda's unflattering clothes. He bothered to find it all out (just like a good scientist). It's what separatess good novels from bad. In bad novels everything is too generalised. Maybe because an editor is breathing down the novelist's neck saying "It won't translate! It won't play in Peoria!" It's a shame Gordon's straight novels have been utterly forgotten.
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