# The Breaking Wave

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- Book: [The Breaking Wave](https://www.bookquiver.com/nevil-shute/the-breaking-wave) ([The Breaking Wave.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nevil-shute/the-breaking-wave.md))
- Authors: [Nevil Shute](https://www.bookquiver.com/nevil-shute)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-0747-402-5
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2010-08-24
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Breaking Wave is one of Nevil Shute’s most poignant and psychologically suspenseful novels, set in the years just after World War II. Sidelined by a wartime injury, fighter pilot Alan Duncan...