In adulthood shuttling from one clinic to another in Pennsylvania I listened to the audiotaped Cruel Sea and was entranced by Nicholas Monsarrat's tale of the sea and the brave men who fought for our freedom. "After seeing the British movie as a 10 year old with my mother which fascinated me and left an indelible memory of the war at sea and the corvettes. 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 men who had to master their own fears before they could face a brutal menace-one which would strike without warning from the deep. The author of The Guncle brings his signature humor and warmth to life’s inevitable passages and the value of friendships over time. 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 during World War II.ĭarting 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.
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