Because the aircraft used in these attacks were obtained from the Soviet Union, the Soviets were mistakenly blamed, triggering a retaliatory strike on the Soviet Union by NATO. The war began with a nuclear attack by Albania on Italy, and then escalated with the bombing of the United States and the United Kingdom by Egypt. World War III has devastated most of the populated world, polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout, and killing all human and animal life in the Northern Hemisphere. The story is set primarily in and around Melbourne, Australia, in 1963. Although Whitman's poem resembles the plot of Shute's novel, the book does not reference it, as it does Eliot's poem. The 2000 film ends with a quote from Walt Whitman's poem "On the Beach at Night", describing how a father comforts his small daughter who is frightened as an approaching cloud bank blots out the evening stars one by one. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men, which includes the lines: The phrase "on the beach" is a Royal Navy term that means "retired from the Service." The title also refers to T. The story has been adapted twice as a film (in 19) and once as a BBC radio broadcast in 2008. For the novel, Shute expanded the storyline. Shute's initial story was published as a four-part series, The Last Days on Earth, in the London weekly periodical Sunday Graphic, in April 1957. As the radiation approaches, each person deals with impending death differently. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere, following a nuclear war some years previous. On the Beach is an apocalyptic novel published in 1957, written by British author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia.
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