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What Happened to the Corbetts
by Nevil Shute
- imaginary wars and battles
- aerial bombing
- world war
- 1939-1945
- classics
- books
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Originally published in 1939 and unavailable for over 2 years, a novel written just before the war, which prophetically describes how it would affect a town like Southampton.
Quotes by Nevil Shute
From WikiquoteDifferential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes — not yet, anyhow.
He was one of that great class of Englishmen who love their wives and trust them unquestioningly with their money and their honour, but are apt to hedge a little over their motor-cars.
It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.
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