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The Chequer Board
The Chequer Board
Author: Nevil Shute
John Turner, injured in a wartime air crash, is told he has one year-or less-to live. How he decides to spend his last few months makes just as moving and readable a story today as when this novel was first published in 1947.
ISBN-13: 9780773671980
ISBN-10: 0773671986
Publication Date: 1989
Pages: 276
Rating:
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4.5 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: General Paperbacks, Toronto
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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