What Happened to the Corbetts
by Nevil Shute | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1842323024 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1842323024 Global Overview for this book
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Journal Entry 1 by SwissShutist from Ostermundigen, Bern / Berne Switzerland on Friday, June 18, 2004
Also published as Ordeal
A thundering at the front door. There was a man wearing an armlet. "Gas masks," he said. "How many in your household?"
No one ever thought war would be like this. It was as bad or worse all over the country. Homes in ruins without gas, electricity or water, typhoid and cholera on the rampage, and the bombs from the sky a nightly terror.
The Corbetts had to escape. As their home and their world collapsed around them, maybe there was a chance of escape on their small yacht in the Solent...
Pan paperback 1983, ISBN 0 330 10380 6
Dt. Titel:
Nevil Shute Norway worked as an aeronautical engineer at Vickers before setting up his own airship company. He served in both world wars and was a commander in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in World War II, working on secret projects. He flew his own aircraft to Australia to research On the Beach, before settling there permanently. His books are based on his own wartime and aircraft industry experiences. Also author of A Town Like Alice.
A thundering at the front door. There was a man wearing an armlet. "Gas masks," he said. "How many in your household?"
No one ever thought war would be like this. It was as bad or worse all over the country. Homes in ruins without gas, electricity or water, typhoid and cholera on the rampage, and the bombs from the sky a nightly terror.
The Corbetts had to escape. As their home and their world collapsed around them, maybe there was a chance of escape on their small yacht in the Solent...
Pan paperback 1983, ISBN 0 330 10380 6
Dt. Titel:
Nevil Shute Norway worked as an aeronautical engineer at Vickers before setting up his own airship company. He served in both world wars and was a commander in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in World War II, working on secret projects. He flew his own aircraft to Australia to research On the Beach, before settling there permanently. His books are based on his own wartime and aircraft industry experiences. Also author of A Town Like Alice.
