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So Disdained
''So Disdained'' is the second published novel by British author, Nevil Shute (N.S. Norway). It was first published in 1928 by Cassell & Co.,〔 reissued in 1951 by William Heinemann, and issued in paperback by Pan Books in 1966. In the United States it is known as ''The Mysterious Aviator'', and was first published by Houghton Mifflin in Boston in 1928.〔〔
== Political and diplomatic background ==
When the book was written, Germany was disarmed under the Versailles Treaty, Hitler was still a marginal figure in the politics of the Weimar Republic and, as the book makes clear, the major political and military threat was perceived to be from the Soviet Union, then in the first flush of success of the October Revolution.
In effect, the book describes a situation of cold war between Britain and the Soviet Union, though the term did not yet exist. Many elements which were to become familiar in the background of 1950s and 1960s thrillers - an accelerated arms race, development of secret weapons, intensive espionage and counter-espionage around these weapons projects, political and social subversion, and the tendency to promote right-wing dictatorships as allies against Communism - are already present in this book, three decades earlier. (This might have prompted the decision to republish it in 1951).
Specifically, the book was written in the direct aftermath of the 1926 General Strike which seemed to put the spectre of a Socialist Revolution on the British agenda - highly unwelcome to people of Shute's persuasions.
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