Nicholas Monsarrat has 50 books on Goodreads with ratings. Nicholas Monsarrat’s most popular book is The Cruel Sea. The Cruel Sea is a classic novel of World War II from the British perspective. It centers on life on a Corvette, a small ship used by the British much as Destroyer Escorts were used by the Americans, mostly for defense of convoys, but occasionally for offensive work against bltadwin.ru by: The Cruel Sea is the story of the crew of a newly commissioned corvette, Compass Rose, a ship that forms part of the escort to merchant convoys during World War II. The crew are mostly inexperienced men from non-naval backgrounds and the story focuses on their differing reactions to the horrifying experiences they have as German U-boats attack their convoys with increasing success/5.
A powerful novel of the North Atlantic in World Wat II, this is the story of the British ships Compass Rose and Saltash and of their desparate cat-and-mouse game with Nazi U-boats. First published to great accalim in , The Cruel Sea remains a classic novel of endurance and daring. Related collections and offers. Product Details. Cider with Rosie The cruel sea A passage to India The Penguin book of English verse Watership Down. Permanent Penguins by Laurie Lee ; Nicholas Monsarrat. E. M. Forster Richard Adams and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru Nicholas Monsarrat. House of Stratus, - Fiction - pages. 0 Reviews. The highly acclaimed 'Cruel Sea' is one of the all-time great naval and war thrillers. The film was a smash hit when released and both it and the book continue to enjoy undiminished popularity. It covers not just the details of the battle of the Atlantic, but.
The Cruel Sea by Monsarrat, Nicholas. Publication date Topics North Collection The Cruel Sea. Addeddate Identifier bltadwin.ru The Cruel Sea is a novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War. It contains seven chapters, each describing a year during the war. The story of the cruelty of war, and the sea itself, is vividly described by the author, made even more memorable by inserting events into the narrative that surely occurred during the course of the war, i.e. the sailboat that sailed through the convoy with ships going out of their way to avoid hitting bltadwin.ru learn that the boat's helmsman was dead, the sailors swimming away from a sinking oil freighter, only to be overcome by fire from burning oil, the funeral at sea, for both a British.
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