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  More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)

 
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
Nevil Shute

(pen name of Nevil Shute Norway, 1899–1960)
Author whose professional background enabled him to write gripping novels about people confronting technological or scientific disaster. He worked as a designer in the aeronautic industry, notably on the successful airship R-100 (see *R-101). His specialist knowledge lay behind the drama of No Highway (1948), in which a desperate engineer struggles to persuade his superiors that he has identified metal fatigue in an airliner (this was some years before the *Comet was taken out of service for that very reason). From 1950 Shute lived in Australia; On the Beach (1957) is set in a Melbourne suburb, with people struggling to go about their everyday lives among nuclear fall-out from World War III.
 








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