The Cruel Sea

Name: The Cruel Sea
Author: Nicholas Monsarrat

by Nicholas Monsarrat

Naval novel depicting convoy warfare and human cost of Atlantic naval battles

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Nicholas Monsarrat

Monsarrat served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War and wrote The Cruel Sea, the definitive English novel of the Battle of the Atlantic. His documentary realism and moral seriousness place it among the finest war novels in the language.

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