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It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.

Pat Frank

It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.

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About Pat Frank

Harry Hart "Pat" Frank (May 5, 1907 – October 12, 1964) was an American newspaperman, writer, and government consultant. Perhaps the “first of the post-Hiroshima doomsday authors,” his best known work is his post-apocalyptic novel Alas, Babylon (1959), which depicted the outbreak of a nuclear war and the struggles of its survivors in a small, central Florida town.