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The Sand Pebbles is a 1962 novel by American author Richard McKenna about a Yangtze River gunboat and its crew in 1926. It was the winner of the 1963 Harper Prize for fiction. The book was initially serialized in The Saturday Evening Post , and was published in January 1963 by Harper & Row .
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1960s, as determined by Publishers Weekly. [1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1960 through 1969.
The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American epic war film directed by Robert Wise in Panavision. It tells the story of an independent, rebellious U.S. Navy machinist's mate first class , aboard the fictional river gunboat USS San Pablo , on Yangtze Patrol in 1920s China.
Richard Milton McKenna (May 9, 1913 – November 1, 1964) was an American sailor and novelist. He was best known for his historical novel The Sand Pebbles, which tells the story of an American sailor serving aboard a gunboat on the Chinese Yangtze River in 1925.
War Hunt; 1963: Tom Jones; Lilies of the Field; All the Way Home; Hud; This Sporting Life; Lord of the Flies; The L-Shaped Room; The Great Escape; How the West Was Won; The Cardinal; 1964: Becket; My Fair Lady; Girl with Green Eyes; The World of Henry Orient; Zorba the Greek; Topkapi; The Chalk Garden; The Finest Hours; Four Days in November ...
“The Sand Castle” is made up of intentionally simple elements: an abandoned island, a creaky old lighthouse, an intermittently working radio. And at its center is a family of four: a doting ...
It includes 1963 films that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category is for war films released in the year 1963 . It does not include unreleased films.
The Sand War (Arabic: حَرْبُ الرِّمَال, romanized: Ḥarb ar-Rimāl) was a border conflict between Algeria and Morocco fought from September 25 to October 30, 1963, although a formal peace treaty was not signed until February 20, 1964.