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What Happened to the Corbetts [Import] [Hardcover]

Nevil Shute (Author)

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Product Details

Hardcover: 236 pages
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd; Uniform Ed edition (December 1952)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0434699055
ISBN-13: 978-0434699056
Shipping Weight: 13.3 ounces

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,685,548 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Nevil Shute Norway was born in 1899 in Ealing, London. He studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. Following his childhood passion, he entered the fledgling aircraft industry as an aeronautical engineer working to develop airships and, later, airplanes. In his spare time he began writing and he published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926, using the name Nevil Shute to protect his engineering career. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they had two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death in 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), A Town Like Alice (1950), and On the Beach (1957).

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4.0 out of 5 stars A slice of life in WWII, June 4, 2010

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This is another wonderful Nevil Shute book. A sort of adventure story set during WWII, it is the story of one family coping with an exploding world.

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