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The Chequer Board
The Chequer Board
Author: Nevil Shute
John Turner, who has had a head injury in an air crash, is told that he has only a year to live. He decides to spend his last months making the journey to Rangoon, Burma, in a flying boat to rescue a friend who has gone native.
ISBN-13: 9780330202671
ISBN-10: 0330202677
Publication Date: 1/1/1962
Pages: 272
Edition: New Ed
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Publisher: Macmillan/Pan Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Mr. Shute is a master story teller. I've read all his books.
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Nevil Shute is a great story-teller, and engages one's interest from the beginning.
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Story of military members up for court martial who end up in the same hospital ward and share their stories. Years later one man tracks down the others to find out how their cases were resolved.
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Copyright 1947, this edition 1965


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