LIEUTENANT COMMANDER PETER HOLMES of the Royal Australian Navy woke soon after dawn.
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On the Beach
by Nevil Shute
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Following a nuclear war in the Northern Hemisphere, the inhabitants of a small Australian community wait for the inevitable aftereffects of the bombs to reach them.
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On the beach
1988, Ballantine Books
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June 1967, William Morrow & Company, Brand: William Morrow n Co, William Morrow & Co
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"LIEUTENANT COMMANDER PETER HOLMES of the Royal Australian Navy woke soon after dawn."
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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.
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