Nevil Shute Collection: On the Beach, a Town Like Alice, Requiem for a Wren and Pied Piper (collective work) (edit title/settings)

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   On the Beach

   by Nevil Shute (Author)

   They are the last generation, the innocent victims of an accidental war, living out their last days, making do with what they have, hoping for a miracle. As the deadly rain moves ever closer, the world as we know it winds toward an inevitable...

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   A Town Like Alice

   by Nevil Shute (Author)

   The story of a young woman who 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...

   Also published in the US as "The Legacy."

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   Requiem for a Wren

   by Nevil Shute (Author)

   Alan Duncan returns to Australia after the war and several years of study in England. But his homecoming is marred by the mysterious suicide of his parents’ quiet and reliable parlour-maid. A search through her belongings in search of clues...

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   Pied Piper

   by Nevil Shute (Author)

   During John Howard’s holiday in France, the Nazis invade and he is forced to try to escape back to England with the two small children of some friends. The roads become impassable and Howard also comes across five more children who need his...