The reward for completing that duty? To do it again, and again, to keep family and friends alive. The Cruel Sea is not a Boy's Own adventure - it is about the grinding terror of escort duty in the Battle of the Atlantic day after day, escorting unarmoured merchant ships across the Atlantic in danger from convoy raiders and U-boats and knowing that this is Britain's only lifeline.
The HMS Compass Rose is torpedoed, but instead of ending the story it follows the few survivors onto the HMS Saltash, and their continued service until the end of the war, as this is the story of people, not a single ship. It's all over you just looking at me we're at war. Set in the Second World War, two ships and their crews of about a hundred and fifty men are involved in. Now are the 1st in a 2 part dramatize ation of Nicholas Montserrat searing novel about the men and ships who fought in the North Atlantic during the 2nd World War The Cruel Sea.
A beautiful copy of this novel of WWII, originally published in 1951, reprinted here for the BOMC uncommon in this condition. Unusually for a war story it doesn't end with the sinking of the ship. A maritime adventure originally published in 1951.
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