The cruel sea
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Author
Publication
2000 - Burford Books, Short Hills, NJ, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
127,250 words, Guess
Page Count
509 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecruelsea0000mons_j3u2
- ISBN-101580800467
- ISBN-139781580800464
- Library of Congress Control Number99087253
- Better World Books9781580800464
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL59141M
Classifications
- DDC823/.912
- LCCPR6025.O36 C7 2000
- LCCPR6025.O36C7 2000
Description
The Cruel Sea is a 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II. It contains seven chapters, each describing a year during the war. The novel, based on the author's experience of serving in corvettes in the North Atlantic in World War II, gives a matter-of-fact but moving portrayal of ordinary men learning to fight and survive in a violent, exhausting battle against the elements and a ruthless enemy. Few books have ever conveyed in such gripping detail the brutal destruction of the Battle of the Atlantic and the endurance of the men who fought it. The novel brought instant fame to its author.
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- Fiction
Series Statement
- Classics of war
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