Word: duggan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little Emperors, by Alfred Duggan. An engagingly sardonic story of a 5th century bureaucrat doomed to watch from the bogs of Britain the decline & fall of the Roman Empire (TIME...
...ALFRED DUGGAN London, England
...Little Emperors, by Alfred Duggan. An engagingly sardonic story of a 5th century Roman bureaucrat doomed to watch the decline & fall of the Roman Empire from the bogs of Britain (TIME...
...harassed but courageous progress through the murderous fiddle-de-dee of the year 406 is told without a word out of place. As an extra dividend, the book is clearly intended for reading as an oblique comment on the British character, and especially on the modern British bureaucracy. Author Duggan seems to suggest that, given a bowler and bumbershoot to go with his tidy, official face, Felix might patter along Downing Street without winning a second glance...
...Duggan himself, like Felix a man in a niche (he is the expert on armor for the British Natural History Museum), is not one to discuss politics as such. But 15 centuries from home, he can utter a refined razzberry at some noteworthy blunderers of the past...