Pastoral - Softcover

Shute, Nevil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184232277X ISBN 13: 9781842322772

Publisher: House of Stratus Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

From an Oxfordshire air base, Wellington bombers fly missions into Germany. Only a handful of crews have survived the war long enough to become experienced. Peter Marshall is captain of one crew. When he falls in love with Gervase, her rebuff nearly costs him his concentration and life. Their relationship blossoms when he has only five more missions to go. As they tick by, tension mounts.

About this title

About the Author:

Nevil Shute Norway was born in London and worked as an aeronautical engineer at Vickers before setting up his own airship company. Worried that his reputation as a fiction writer would damage his engineering career, he wrote without using his surname. He served in both world wars and was a commander in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in World War II, working on secret projects. After the war he became a full time author completing a fictionalised account of his war time experience in 'Most Secret'. Moving to Australia in 1949 he based seven of his novels against that background including his most successful title On The Beach. This was subsequently a hugely successful film starring Gregory Peck, Antony Perkins and Ava Gardner and became arguably the major after the bomb movie of all time. Shute became one of the top selling authors of the 50s and 60s with wide appeal to a broad international market attracted by strong story lines which were always meticulously researched..

Review:

"One of the happiest books which war has called into being" * Sunday Times *

About this edition

• Publisher: House of Stratus Ltd
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 184232277X
• ISBN 13: 9781842322772
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294