What Happened to the Corbetts Nevil Shute

...there came a thundering at the front door; Peter went and opened it. There was a man there, wearing an armlet. 'Gas masks,' he said. 'How many in your household?' When war came to Southampton, no-one expected it to be like this - least of all the Corbetts. Their home a ruin without gas, electricity or water, no milk for the baby, typhoid and cholera a daily threat, and bombs from the sky a nightly terror. In a desperate attempt to save their children, Joan and Peter begin a heart-stirring journey that exchanges the dangers on land for the darkness and waste of the sea... Written in 1938, this moving and dramatic novel of simple heroism shows a master storyteller and modern prophet at his irresistible best. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге What Happened to the Corbetts (Nevil Shute)