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Paul Clarke (character)
Paul Clarke is a fictional character from the '' Henderson's Boys'' series by Robert Muchamore. His mother died before the Second World War and his father died whilst carrying valuable radio blueprints for the British Secret Service. Background and early life Paul Clarke's mother died from cancer shortly before the Second World War, leaving him in the care of his father, a wireless salesman. Physical appearance Paul is described by his sister as 'weedy'. He doesn't enjoy sport and finds the physical training of CHERUB hard. Personality Paul enjoys his own company and spends all of his personal time reading and drawing. His area of the dormitory is adorned by copies of some of Picasso's paintings. Academia Paul is an introvert and enjoys being on his own. He spends a lot of his time drawing and reading, and drew for a German officer in Eagle Day. Appearances ''The Escape'' In ''The Escape'', Paul and his sister Rosie are being hunted by German agents because the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henderson's Boys
''Henderson's Boys'' is a young adult series of spy novels by the English author Robert Muchamore. The series follows Charles Henderson, the creator of the fictitious CHERUB organisation. The novels are set between 1940 and 1945, during the Nazi occupation of France in the Second World War. Throughout the novels, Henderson leads a series of war missions, aided by children. ''Henderson's Boys'' is a spin-off and a prequel of the ''CHERUB'' series, which centres on the peacetime version of the organisation during the 2000s and 2010s. ''Henderson's Boys'' reveals various features of the CHERUB organisation's origins. Books ''The Escape'' ''The Escape'' is the first book in the ''Henderson's Boys'' series. It was published on 5 February 2009 by Hodder Children's Books. The novel is set in France, from 5 to 15 June 1940, at a time when Hitler's Nazi armies are invading and forcing civilians to flee. Meanwhile, German agents are tracking two British children, 11-year-old Paul and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Muchamore
Robert Kilgore Muchamore (born 26 December 1971) is an English author of young adult fiction. He's best known for his ''CHERUB'', '' Henderson's Boys'' and '' Rock War'' series. Early life Robert Kilgore Muchamore was born in Tufnell Park, London, on 26 December 1971, and is the youngest of four children; his father was a milkman and his mother a cleaning lady. Muchamore grew up in Tufnell Park and attended St. Johns Upper Holloway and Acland Burghley School, leaving with a D in A-Level Economics and aspired to be either an architect, photographer or writer. His first job was at an heir hunters firm called Fraser & Fraser. Career ''CHERUB'' Muchamore started writing the ''CHERUB'' novels because his nephew Jared, who lived in Australia, could not find any novels that he liked reading. He tried to write novels that he would have enjoyed reading when he was an adolescent, a time when he remembers being too old for children's novels but not old enough to read adult novels. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of Assemblage (art), constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the Proto-Cubism, proto-Cubist ''Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'' (1907) and the anti-war painting ''Guernica (Picasso), Guernica'' (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. Beginning his formal training under his father José Ruiz y Blasco aged seven, Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent from a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosie Clarke (Henderson's Boys)
This is a list of characters from Robert Muchamore's ''Henderson's Boys'' series of books. Children Group A * Marc Kilgour: Found at a train station, abandoned by his mother, Marc spent the first 12 years of his life in an orphanage. The protagonist, Marc has a gift for languages and knows both French and German. He features in all of the books. * Paul Clarke: A shy boy, his mother died when he was very young and his father died during an air raid. He spends a lot of his time reading and painting. He also designed the CHERUB insignia. * (1927 - 5 June 1944): Paul's sister, she was born in England and feels that it is her 'proper' home. Rosie is currently the only female allowed to enter CHERUB's training program. She dies in ''Scorched Earth'' when she is shot in the base of the nose by Milice Commander Robert. * PT Bivott: Born and raised in New York, his older brother and father died during a criminal operation that went wrong. He tried to run away during Eagle Day but w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Physician
A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis and therapy, treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. Physicians may focus their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients, and methods of treatment—known as Specialty (medicine), specialities—or they may assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families, and communities—known as general practitioner, general practice. Medical practice properly requires both a detailed knowledge of the Discipline (academia), academic disciplines, such as anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, underlying diseases, and their treatment, which is the science of medicine, and a decent Competence (human resources ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PT Bivott
Philippe Tomás "P. T." Bivott is an American-born boy from the Henderson's Boys book series by Robert Muchamore. In the events of ''Eagle Day'', he was fifteen years old. He first appears at the end of ''The Escape''. Bivott emigrated to France after stealing a lot of money. It is also revealed in '' Maximum Security'' that Bivott became CHERUB's gym master. There is a plaque in the oldest of CHERUB's gyms saying: "Any boy bringing in mud or dirt on his plimsolls will be thrashed. P.T. Bivott (Sports Master)" Background and early life Bivott's father tried to rob a bank in Chicago. The job succeeded but resulted in the death one of Bivott's brothers and their father. Bivott fled to France with a sack of twenty dollar bills. Physical appearance Described as handsome by Rosie. Tall and gangly with long dark hair which is usually greased back. It is assumed that he must be physically fit because he later becomes CHERUB's sports master. Personality Bivott has been describe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Henderson (character)
Charles Henderson is a fictional character from the ''Henderson's Boys'' series by English author Robert Muchamore. He is the founder of CHERUB and member of the obscure branch of Naval intelligence known as the ''Espionage Research Unit''. Background and life Charles Henderson attended Burghley Road Grammar school, leaving at the age of fifteen. He worked briefly at a die-cast metal works before following his father into the Royal Navy."Charles Henderson" He served on several different ships and reached the role of Commander by his early twenties. He turned down two offers of Captain. Henderson's language skills - which were very advanced - meant that he was more suited to a desk job. In 1935, he was transferred to the ''Espionage research Unit''. In 1939, as World War II broke out, he was sent to Europe to liaise with resistance movements. In 1940 he was sent to retrieve Paul and Rosie Clarke, two British children in possession of valuable radio blueprints that the Nazis also w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi
Nazism (), formally named National Socialism (NS; , ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During Hitler's rise to power, it was frequently referred to as Hitler Fascism () and Hitlerism (). The term "neo-Nazism" is applied to other far-right groups with similar ideology, which formed after World War II, and after Nazi Germany collapsed. Nazism is a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. Its beliefs include support for dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, anti-Slavism, anti-Romani sentiment, scientific racism, white supremacy, Nordicism, social Darwinism, homophobia, ableism, and the use of eugenics. The ultranationalism of the Nazis originated in pan-Germanism and the ethno-nationalist ''Völkisch movement, Völkisch'' movement which had been a prominent aspect of German nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Henderson's Boys Characters
This is a list of characters from Robert Muchamore's ''Henderson's Boys'' series of books. Children Group A * Marc Kilgour: Found at a train station, abandoned by his mother, Marc spent the first 12 years of his life in an orphanage. The protagonist, Marc has a gift for languages and knows both French and German. He features in all of the books. * Paul Clarke: A shy boy, his mother died when he was very young and his father died during an air raid. He spends a lot of his time reading and painting. He also designed the CHERUB insignia. * (1927 - 5 June 1944): Paul's sister, she was born in England and feels that it is her 'proper' home. Rosie is currently the only female allowed to enter CHERUB's training program. She dies in ''Scorched Earth'' when she is shot in the base of the nose by Milice Commander Robert. * PT Bivott: Born and raised in New York, his older brother and father died during a criminal operation that went wrong. He tried to run away during Eagle Day but wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henderson's Boys Characters
Henderson's, better known as The Bomb Shop, was a bookshop at 66 Charing Cross Road, London known for publishing and selling both radical left and anarchist writing and modernist literature. The shop was founded in 1909, and was a father and son operation run by Francis Riddell Henderson, formerly the London representative of Walter Scott Publishing. The shop was bought by Eva Collet Reckitt, and became the first of the Collet's chain of left-wing bookshops. Shop Few records exist of Francis Henderson's early life, but he had connections with Russian émigrés and developed a passion for Russian literature, especially the works of Tolstoy. This drew him into the circle of Vladimir Chertkov, a prominent Tolstoyan and a pacifist anarchist, and from there into London's radical scene. Henderson demanded that Walter Scott publish Louise Maude's translation of the Tolstoy novel ''Resurrection'' in the public domain with the legend "no rights reserved" – when Walter Scott refu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
