Landfall

Informationen zum Autor Nevil Shute was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, London. After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel, Marazan , in 1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have 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 on 12 January 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957). Klappentext Jerry Chambers, a fresh-faced young pilot, mistakenly sinks a British submarine. He is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting to test an experimental new bomb, a dangerous mission far away from the girl he loves. While Jerry risks his life, his sweetheart Mona sets about clearing her lover's name...but will she be too late? Zusammenfassung Jerry Chambers! a fresh-faced young pilot! mistakenly sinks a British submarine. He is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting to test an experimental new bomb! a dangerous mission far away from the girl he loves. While Jerry risks his life! his sweetheart Mona sets about clearing her lover's name...but will she be too late?

Product details

• Authors: Nevil Shute, Nevil Shute Norway
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.09.2009
• EAN: 9780099530053
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953005-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, FICTION / War & Military, Historical romance, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Action & Adventure, Historical adventure, Historical adventure fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary