The Cruel Sea (Classics of War)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781580800464 (1580800467)
Publish date: March 14th 2000
Publisher: Burford Books
Pages no: 520
Edition language: English
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...
A really unusual, but highly moving account of this aspect of WWII. Loved it.
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 ..... Harry Livingstone Mavis ..... Tracy Wiles Coxswain ..... James Lailey Donnelly...
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