Made into a film in 1953, starring Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden and Denholm Elliott. It was one of the first novels to depict life aboard the vital, but unglamorous, 'small ships' of World War II, ships for which the sea was as much a threat as the Germans. It contains seven chapters, each describing a year during the war. It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War. Monsarrat took a bachelor’s degree in law at Trinity College, Cambridge, and then spent two years in a solicitor’s office. The Cruel Sea is a 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. 8, 1979, London), popular English novelist whose best-known work, The Cruel Sea, vividly captured life aboard a small ship in wartime. Based on his own wartime service, it followed the young naval officer Keith Lockhart through a series of postings in corvettes and frigates. Nicholas Monsarrat, in full Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat, (born March 22, 1910, Liverpool, Eng.died Aug. Monsarrat's (1910-79), first post war novel, widely regarded as his finest work. Some edge wear, chipping, creasing and long closed tears to top and bottom of jacket and spine, large creased tear to back jacket and 3" loss along spine hinge, corners rubbed with small loss, some spotting to prelims, page block and endpapers, not price clipped (12/6), no inscriptions, otherwise internally clean tight and square, overall a reasonable and obviously well read copy for its age. A powerful novel of the North Atlantic in World Wat II, this is the story of the British ships Compass Rose and Saltash and of their desparate cat-and-mouse. First published in August 1951, this is an twelfth edition of 1953 (a tribute to the book's popularity).
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