Robert Rees reviewed On the Beach by Nevil Shute
A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as …
Review of 'On the Beach' on 'LibraryThing'
5 stars
Shute's book lays out a cruel apocalypse that is as slow moving as it is inevitable. Its ending is wrenching, evoking perfectly a sense of the terrible price individuals must pay for the hubris of mankind.