Nevil Shute 1899-1960
"It has been said an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound."
The Wheel of Hell was heading inexorably towards them.
The device, two conjoined, dancing, bouncing, flaming bands festooned with sparkling rockets, weighing roughly a ton and designed to bust through German beach defenses, was also known as the “Circle of Damnation”, the “Chariot of Fire”, and a number of other names not to be re-printed here. Official…