Rank Insubordination!

Rank Insubordination! is a comic and dramatic novel set during a year in a boys' English public school in the mid-1950s, at the time of the cold war, the Suez Crisis and the end of empire.An austere headmaster struggles to deal with growing pupil rebellion, led by the school's Lenin.A despotic monitor, desperately competes with the rugby captain forthe amorous attention of a young French woman.A junior housemaster, renowned for his punishment floggings, gets into a tangled relationship with an assertive matron.Parents struggle with the school's hierarchical ethos.As serious unrest ferments, everybody grapples with the post-war legacy and a future with continental Europe.It's a lively story about a seminal period in the past; one with a modern resonance.