The Cruel Sea
Author(s): Monsarrat, Nicholas,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 06/08/2009,
Pagination: 448 pages, maps,
Series: Penguin World War II Collection,
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd,
Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Second World War fiction
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780141042831
Description:
Based on the author's own vivid experiences, The Cruel Sea is the nail-biting story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two.
Darting back and forth across the icy North Atlantic, Compass Rose played a deadly cat and mouse game with packs of German U-boats lying in wait beneath the ocean waves.
Packed with tension and vivid descriptions of agonising U-boat hunts, this tale of the most bitter and chilling campaign of the war tells of ordinary, heroic men who had to face a brutal menace which would strike without warning from the deep...
The Cruel Sea
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