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Nevil Shute was born in London and educated at Oxford for a life in science. He won distinction in two specialized and demanding careers. As Nevil Shute Norway, aviation engineer, he founded his own aircraft company and worked on the development of secret weapons for the British in World War II. As Nevil Shute, novelist, he was the author of some two dozen books that have sold more than fifteen million copies in all editions. He died in 1960 at the age of sixty.Shute, Nevil is the author of 'On the Beach', published 1983 under ISBN 9780345311481 and ISBN 0345311485.
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