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camaro91
camaro91
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High School - 10th Grade

What is "the short bewildering war . . . of which no history had ever been written" from On the Beach?

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Posted by camaro91 on Wednesday January 30, 2008 at 1:51 PM and tagged with chapter 1, history, nuclear war, on the beach, quote, written.

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  1. linda-allen Teacher
    High School - 10th Grade

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    You will find your answer right in chapter 1. The book opens one year after a nuclear war has destroyed North America, Europe, and Asia. It is this war that the quotation is referring to. The novel deals with the aftereffects of nuclear fallout on the people who have survived.

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    Posted by linda-allen on Wednesday January 30, 2008 at 2:16 PM