War novel prefaced the (American) first edition of 1941, Powys comments "the beginning of the fifteenth century […] saw the beginning of one of the most momentous and startling epochs of "transition" that the world has known". This was written in May 1940, and "[t]here can be no doubt" that readers of the novel would have "registered the connection between the actions of the book and the events of their own world". "Fair Stood the Wind for France" is a 1944 novel by H. E. Bates, which is concerned with a pilot of a Wellington bomber, who badly injures his arm when
George E. Bates (professor) George E. Bates (professor) George E. Bates (1902-1992) was an American academic. He was a Professor of Investment Management at the Harvard Business School and the editor of the "Harvard Business Review". George E. Bates graduated from the University of Missouri. He also earned a master in business administrator (M.B.A.) from the Harvard Business School in 1925. Bates started his career as an Assistant Dean at the Harvard Business School in 1925. Over the course of his forty-year career as a faculty member, he became the Winston Professor of Investment Management at the Harvard Business School. He authored two books