Nicholas Monsarrat

The Master Mariner

Novel tracing a master mariner's career across changing eras and navigation challenges

About the author

Nicholas Monsarrat
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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