Nevil Shute

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Florida

After receiving a large legacy, Jean returns to Malaya to search for a young Australian she met there during the war

A Town Like Alice

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After receiving a large legacy, Jean returns to Malaya to search for a young Australian she met there during the war.

Michigan

A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North.

On the Beach

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"A harrowing, exciting, and in the end very satisfying war romance." HARPER'S A TOWN LIKE ALICE tells of a young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese "death march" in World War II, and of an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her--even at the cost of his life....

No moisture exposure clean print little shelf wear 

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Light crease on spine, slughtly cocked spine.  RJ

Arizona

Shelf wear tag on back paperback cover no highlighting no notes interesting account of a post apocalyptic world

Good book but need space on my bookshelf 

Crease on back cover, yellowing of pages, stamp on inside front cover.  Mass market paperback 

Nevada

New York

Following a nuclear war in the Northern Hemisphere, the inhabitants of a small Australian community await the inevitable after-effects of the bombs to reach them.

Kentucky

Jean Paget survived World War II as a prisoner of the Japanese in Malaya - After the war she sets out to visit the villagers in Malaya who helped her - Whilst there she discovers that an Australian soldier she thought had died had survived, so she travels to Australia in search of him and the town that he had described to her - Available as a film.

Small tear in top
Of spine, otherwise new! 

Oklahoma

Nevil Shute's most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.

Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. But it turns out that they have a gift for her as well: the news that the young Australian soldier, Joe Harmon, who had risked his life to help the women, had miraculously survived. Jean's search for Joe leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals.

Georgia

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Trustee from the Toolroom

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Minor cover wear, separation occuring between spine and book, no damaged or missing pages 

The Autobiography of an Engineer

Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1954.

Slide Rule

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

In The Wet

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The Chequer Board

Cloth cover shows fading and discoloration 
cloth on spine is worn near top 

William Morrow & Company, 1939, 280 pages

What Happened to the Corbetts (US title: Ordeal) is a novel by Nevil Shute, a fictional depiction of the effect of aerial bombing on the British city of Southampton, a major maritime centre. It was written in 1938, and published in April 1939 by William Heinemann Ltd, when the outbreak of World War II was already a very likely development.


The novel addresses the issues of the aftermath of bombing, such as the spread of disease from lack of clean water, and what may be done to relieve the distress of those affected by it although the author concedes he "overlooked the importance of fire" as a consequence of bombing raids.  On the initial day of publication, a thousand copies of the novel were distributed free of charge to members of the Air Raid Precautions team to inform them of what they might expect.
The novel does not say which nation is bombing Southampton and many other towns in England. France and the United States are neutral, but the Dominions except possibly Ireland declare war on Britain's side. Early in chapter 1 there is a mention of a newspaper cartoon which "represented the Prime Minister, very jocular, dangling a carrot before two donkeys separated from him by a wire fence. One of the donkeys had the head of Hitler, and the other, Mussolini".

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