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Most Secret is a novel by Nevil Shute, written in 1942 but censored until 1945, when it was published by Pan Books. It is narrated by a Commander in the Royal Navy, and tells the story of four officers who launch a daring mission at the time when Britain stood alone against Germany after the fall of France. Genevieve is a converted French fishing vessel, manned by four British officers and a small crew of Free French ex-fishermen, armed only with a flame-thrower and small arms. Their task is as much psychological as military: to show the Germans they will one day be beaten back.
Novels by Nevil Shute Stephen Morris and Pilotage (1923) • Marazan (1926) • So Disdained (1928) • Lonely Road (1932) • Ruined City (1938) • What Happened to the Corbetts (1939) • An Old Captivity (1940) • Landfall: A Channel Story (1940) • Pied Piper (1942) • Most Secret (1945) • Pastoral (1944) • Vinland the Good (1946) • The Chequer Board (1947) • No Highway (1948) • A Town Like Alice (1950) • Round the Bend (1951) • The Far Country (1952) • In the Wet (1953) • Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer (1954) • Requiem for a Wren (1955) • Beyond the Black Stump (1956) • On the Beach (1957) • The Rainbow and the Rose (1958) • Trustee from the Toolroom (1960) • The Seafarers (2000)Categories:- 1945 novels
- World War II novels
- Novels by Nevil Shute
- War novel stubs
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