From the hugely acclaimed author of On the Beach--a tale of love and war that follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback. - "Entertaining ... Dramatic ... Shute is a natural and effective...
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's...
"A harrowing, exciting, and in the end very satisfying war romance."HARPER'SA TOWN LIKE ALICE tells of a young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese "death march" in World War II, and of an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her--even at the...