The Cruel Sea

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: Reprint

Description: 444 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout and is covered in a protective plastic.

Publishers Description: 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 . . .

ISBN: 9780141042831