Falls, Cyril
Entry updated 25 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1888-1971) Irish-born soldier, academic and author writing chiefly on military matters, in the UK from adolescence; he was in active service throughout World War One, became very well known as a war correspondent during World War Two. Of sf interest is his only novel, The Man for the Job: A Story for Commissars (1947), a Satire on Communism in which the Invention of a new Element known as "monobelium" causes a bureaucratic ruckus. Falls was made CBE (Companion of the British Empire) in 1967. [JC]
Cyril Bentham Falls
born Dublin, Ireland: 2 March 1888
died Walton-on-Thames, Surrey: 23 April 1971
works (highly selected)
- Tales of Hoffmann: Retold from Offenbach's Opera (London: Chatto and Windus, 1913) [coll: trans/adaptations as described: E T A Hoffmann: illus/hb/A Brantingham Simpson]
- The Man for the Job: A Story for Commissars (London: Methuen, 1947) [hb/L S Haywood]
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