Buy Most Secret by Nevil Shute online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 11 editions - starting at $ Shop www.doorway.ru Count: "Most Secret" refers to the classification of reports concerning a fishing vessel and its secret missions to wartime France. If you get the Nevil Shute bug you are infected forever. This book is not his best, suffering a little from the disjointed nature of the plot and the long starting section giving you the backstories of each of the characters/5(65). Nevil Shute Norway (17 January - 12 January ) was a popular British-Australian novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and published his first novel, Marazan, in
Most Secret tells the story of a series of high-risk clandestine operations conceived and executed by people who don't look like heroes, seizing opportunities presented to them and doing their duty to the utmost. Shute's low-key, matter-of-fact style doesn't glorify the actors or dramatize heroics. Nevil Shute () was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who served in the British military in both world wars and spent his later years in Australia. The author of 24 published novels and novellas, his best-known books include Pied Piper, A Town Like Alice, and especially On the Beach, set in a fictional post-atomic-war Australia. Most Secret is a novel by Nevil Shute, written in but censored until , when it was published by Pan Books. It is narrated by a commander in the Royal Navy, and tells the story of four officers who launch a daring mission at the time when Britain stood alone against Germany after the fall of France.
After a somewhat slow start, Nevil Shute’s “Most Secret” really takes off after a few pages and soon becomes too interesting to put down. Readers who are savvy in World War II weaponry will undoubtedly find the descriptions of technology very engaging. For me however (and I suspect for most readers), interest centers around the characters. Buy Most Secret by Nevil Shute online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 11 editions - starting at $ Shop now. Most Secret by Nevil Shute. Mandarin, January Mass Market Paperback. Used - Acceptable. First book has a $ shipping fee, there is no additional shipping fee for addition books from our store. All of our books are in clean, readable condition unless noted otherwise.
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