Nicholas Monsarrat
Birth date: March 22, 1910
Died: August 08, 1979
Nicholas Monsarrat's Books
One of the best novels of war at sea.
THE NOVEL YOU EXPECTED TO HATE, BUT TURNED OUT YOU LOVED Life's pretty busy at the moment, so I am lagging behind a bit with the daily book meme. For yesterday's book I am picking The Cruel Sea. Had this not been part of the BBC Big Read programme some years ago I would never had picked this up ...
Sunday: Dramatisation of Nicholas Monsarrat's World War II novel.Lockhart ..... Gwilym Lee Ericson ..... Jonathan Coy Ferraby ..... Carl Prekopp Wainwright ..... David Seddon Phillips ..... Peter Hamilton-Dyer Gregg ..... ...
I haven't read much fiction about WWII but I was motivated to read this because waaaaaay back in my late teens I read The Master Mariner, by the same author, a kind of Wandering Jew story covering the history of shipping from I can't remember how far back up to the age of oil super-tankers. It was g...
Several years ago, I came across this novel by accident, thumbed through a few pages, and curiosity piqued, began to read it. The story is centered around Matthew Lawe, a young English seaman who, as part of the convoy of ships tasked with tackling the Spanish Armada, flees his battle station whi...
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