The cruel sea
Sea stories
Naval operations
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
World war, 1939-1945, fiction
Fiction, war & military
Fiction in English
Campaigns
Romans, nouvelles
World War, 1939-1945
Fiction, general
Fiction
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 corvette…
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