
Nevil Shute's most powerful novel--a bestseller for decades after its 1957 publication--is an unforgettable vision of a post-apocalyptic world. After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive...



Set in Melbourne following a catastrophic war in the northern hemisphere, Nevil Shute's classic is the story of a handful of survivors in the terrifying aftermath of nuclear apocalypse. First published in 1957--and famously adapted for the screen soon after by Stanley Kramer,...
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A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North.










