![]() ![]() Two fellow officers have come straight from a 5 week training course and were a journalist and bank clerk in civilian life. His crew prove to be a mixture of experience. Lieutenant Commander Ericson, too young for WW1 and too old for WW2, has been brought out of retirement to captain the ship. ![]() Part 1 is entitled 1939 Learning, and we are introduced to the crew allocated to the corvette Compass Rose, getting ready to escort convoys of merchant shipping across the Atlantic. The only heroines are the ships: and the only villain the cruel sea itself.” “This is the story – the long and true story – of one ocean, two ships, and about a hundred and fifty men….But the men are the stars of this story. Setting the scene in the introduction we are told:. The book is divided into 7 parts, each one covering a year of the War in the Atlantic. Book Review by Mary P: Our theme for the month was naval fiction, and I decided to read The Cruel Sea which when I looked for a copy of the book was said to be “ a classic “ Cover of the first edition. ![]()
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