The Cruel Sea

Author: Monsarrat, Nicholas

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 6 August 2009 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin World War II Collection' series.

Paperback / softback | 448 pages, None
196 x 130 x 20 | 310g

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 . . .