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1. THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
By:Alexander
Baron

2. ALEXANDER BARON
 Alexander Baron (4 December 1917 – 6 December 1999) was a
British author and screenwriter. He is best known for his highly
acclaimed novel about D-Day entitled From the City from the
Plough (1948) and his London novel The Lowlife (1963). His father
was Barnet Bernstein, a Polish-Jewish immigrant to Britain who
settled in the East End of London in 1908 and later worked as a
furrier. Alexander Baron was born in Maidenhead and raised in
the Hackney district of London. He attended Hackney Downs
School. During the 1930s, with his school friend Ted Willis, Baron
was a leading activist and organizer of the Labour League of Youth
(at that time aligned with the Communist Party), campaigning
against the fascists in the streets of the East End. Baron became
increasingly disillusioned with far left politics as he spoke
to International Brigade fighters returning from the Spanish Civil
War, and finally broke with the communists after the Hitler–Stalin
Pact of August 1939.

3. ALEXANDER Baron, who has died aged 82,
was the greatest British novelist of the last war
and among the finest, most underrated, of the
postwar period. He burst on the literary scene
in 1948 with his debut novel, From The City,
From The Plough, described by VS Pritchett as
"the only war book that has conveyed any
sense of reality to me", and went on, through
the 50s and 60s, to become a seminal London
novelist, as well as pursuing a successful
screenwriting career.
ALEXANDER BARON

4. SOME PEOPLE NEVER DIE

5. CHARACTERS
• Private Quelch – A young man under army
training, probably in Africa. His nickname was
‘Professor’ because his knowledge was very
deep and vast.
• Corporal Turnbul – A senior army officer and
instructor
• The narrator – Another young man under army
training
• An instructor – One who gave a lecture on the
use of riffles

6. WHO WAS PRIVATE QUELCH
• Private Quelch was not an ordinary soldier
under training. Even though he was in his
initial years of training, Private Quelch had the
attitude of one who had a great ambition in
life. He wanted to become an officer soon and
rise to higher ranks in the army. For this he
worked, day and night, read books and revised
his army lessons.

7. • Even though he knew much more than
what a soldier should know, Private
Quelch had a weakness; he used to
exhibit his knowledge where ever he
got a chance. He questioned his
instructors, corrected his lecturers and
sermonized his fellow soldiers.

8. • His tone was that
of condscending.He interrupted the trainers.
He replies to the sergeant proudly,”it is a
matter or intelligent reading”, when the
latter asked him how he got all this
knowledge. He used to read enormously. He
borrowed training manuals and burnt the
midnight oil to learn them.

9. SUMMARY
• The story is about a man named Private Quelch who likes to
show off his knowledge. The narrator and his friends also gave
him nickname ‘Professor' due his lanky body and
bespectacled looks. Although Private Quelch meant to acquire
a stripe and to get commission. He works hard for his
ambition but due to his habit of interrupting seniors and
showing off his knowledge he was nominated for permanent
cookhouse duties by Corporal Turnbull. Corporal Turnbull, a
young and smart soldier who had returned from Dunkirk, was
a man not to be trifled with. The narrator and his fellow
soldiers told each other that they could hammer nails into him
without him noticing. There are also many incidents in the
story, when Private Quelch outshone his fellow
soldiers(including the narrator) on aircraft recognition, when
professor interrupted the Sergeant and he started asking
questions to Professor in hope of revenge. The story ends
with a light note on Private Quelch lecturing his fellow soldiers
on how to cut potato without its vitamin values being wasted.