by NicholasMonsarrat (Author)
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, heroic men who had to face a brutal menace which would strike without warning from the deep ...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: Re-issue
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 06 Aug 2009
ISBN 10: 0141042834
ISBN 13: 9780141042831