The Legacy Author:Nevil Shute The Legacy is among the three of four most cherished books by the best-selling author of On The Beach- and the only one of his novels to be based on an actual incident. It tells of a young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese "death march" in Malaya, and of an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her- even at th... more »e cost of his life...« less