Talk:Strangers and Brothers

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[edit] The New Men

I read -- and enjoyed -- several of Snow's novels many years ago (getting on thirty, I think). What I found ironic in reading The New Men is that novelists are often accused of over-dramatising real events for fictional purposes, but Snow's fictional account under-dramatizes the British role in the development of nuclear reactors and the atomic bomb during WWII -- the actual history is considerably more exciting than Snow made it sound in this novel. To compare, Nuel Pharr Davis's dual biography of Ernest Lawrence and Robert Oppenheimer, Lawrence and Oppenheimer (1968) is actual (related) history which is written in a compelling "novelistic" style. 137.82.188.68 04:11, 21 July 2007 (UTC)