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 the Second World War. It contains seven chapters,
Lieutenant Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FRSL RNVR was a British novelist known for his sea stories, particularly The Cruel Sea and Three Corvettes, but perhaps known best internationally f
The Cruel Sea (novel)
…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 the Second World War. It contains seven chapters…
Commemorative plaque on Rodney Street, Liverpool
Nicholas Monsarrat signing a copy of The Story of Esther Costello as Dorothy Shoemaker watches.