Sunday, August 16, 2009

On the Beach (1957) novel

Australian author Nevil Shute's On the Beach published in 1957 during the first decade of the Cold War capitalized on Western fears of a nuclear war that would destroy North America and pollute the rest of the world with deadly radiation. The bulk of the novel is set is Australia.

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