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The Cruel Sea

Paperback • 2009 • English

The Cruel Sea

By Nicholas Monsarrat

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About the book

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, heroi...Show more

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Second World War

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ISBN

9780141042831

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

The Cruel Sea

Format

Paperback

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