Clean, Bright and Slightly Oiled

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Overview:

Title: Clean, Bright and Slightly Oiled
Author: Gerald Kersh
Year: 1946
Publisher: William Heinemann
Price: 7/6
Pages: [8]+140
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Non-fiction
Title Reference: Clean, Bright and Slightly Oiled
Notes: 'Clean, Bright & Slightly Oiled' on cover, 'Clean, Bright and Slightly Oiled' on title page. Price from: http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/gerald-kersh.htm. The Gerald Kersh pages on harlanellison.com list two stories for this memoir of the author's experiences in the Coldstream Guards during the Second World War. Neither of the stories are named or listed in the table of contents and are in the form of asides in the chapter "How Not to Become an Officer". "Mary John" (given as Mary Johns on the Ellison site) is acknowledged as fiction by the author in his introduction to the piece. "Blast!..." is presented as a true story by Kersh who states it is "...honest-to-god fact, confirmable by the Metropolitan Police, the A.R.P. ...". Other sections are in the form of verbal stories told to the author and which may also be purely fictional.