Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of...

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes...

Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be...

Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king...

A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.

A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to...