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8. "What Happened To The Corbbetts" by Nevil Shute

Sun Sep 18, 2022, 01:28 PM

Sep 2022

First published in 1939

Marazan (1926) was the first of 25 books Shute wrote in a career that spanned 30 years. His major works include So Disdained (1928) and What Happened to the Corbetts (1939), a foretaste of World War II’s bombing of civilians. His later novels—all set in Australia—reflected a growing feeling of despair about the future of humanity. A Town Like Alice (1950) dealt with the Far Eastern theatre of World War II. In On The Beach Shute describes the effect of an atomic war and vividly pictures the complete destruction of the human race.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nevil-Shute#ref165813

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