[rollei_list] Re: VERY OT; Nevil Shute
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 21:17:02 -0500
At 06:53 PM 11/19/2013, Allan Derickson wrote:
>Nevil Shute is probably best known in the US for On The Beach which was made
>into a movie starring Gregory Peck in 1959.
>
>I recall a book of his set in England during WWII about an airplane
>designer. I can't remember the title.
>
>Allan
ON THE BEACH is perhaps Shute's worst book. The
book before that, TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM, was probably his best.
I know Shute's work well and I do recall a work
of his involving a WWII aircraft designer. There
is NO HIGHWAY, later made into the James Stewart
vhicle as NO HIGHWAY IN THE SKY, but that is post
WWII. And there were the Stephen Morris novels of post WWI aviation.
Marc
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