Ordeal

by Nevil Shute

Book Overview

Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he imagines the devastation that results from an aerial bomb attack on Southampton that destroys the city's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525171924
• ISBN13: 9780525171928
• Release Date: January 1939
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A slice of life in WWII

This is another wonderful Nevil Shute book. A sort of adventure story set during WWII, it is the story of one family coping with an exploding world.