With his Royal Navy commission in hand, Richard Delancey is posted to Gibraltar to command the sloop Merlin for convoy protection in the Mediterranean.
Working around the premise 'work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion' Parkinson explores the realities of human behaviour within a bureaucracy.
The title of this book is Parkinson's Law, and Other Studies in Administration and it was written by Cyril Northcote Parkinson, Robert C. Osborn (Illustrator). This particular edition is in a Hardcover format.