The Cruel Sea

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Monsarrat Klappentext Nicholas Monsarrat was born in Liverpool in 1910. At the beginning of the war he joined the RNVR as a sub-lieutenant and attained the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. He died in August 1979 and his ashes were later scattered over the sea. Zusammenfassung 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 agonizing 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 . . .

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Monsarrat
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.08.2009
• EAN: 9780141042831
• ISBN: 978-0-14-104283-1
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Penguin World War II Collection; Penguin World War II Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary