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On the Beach
Narrated by Simon Prebble
Written by Nevil Shute
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  A bestseller for decades — an unforgettable vision of a post-apocalyptic world.

  After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone in its path. Among them is an American submarine captain struggling to resist the knowledge that his wife and children in the United States must be dead. Then a faint Morse code signal is picked up, transmitting from somewhere near Seattle, and Captain Towers must lead his submarine crew on a tour of the ruined world in a desperate search for signs of life.   Intensely moving, On the Beach is a remarkably convincing portrait of how ordinary people might face the most unimaginable nightmare.

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