The reward for completing that duty? To do it again, and again, to keep family and friends alive. It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II.
The Cruel Sea is not a Boy's Own adventure - it is about the grinding terror of escort duty in the Battle of the Atlantic day after day, escorting unarmoured merchant ships across the Atlantic in danger from convoy raiders and U-boats and knowing that this is Britain's only lifeline. The Cruel Sea is a 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. The HMS Compass Rose is torpedoed, but instead of ending the story it follows the few survivors onto the HMS Saltash, and their continued service until the end of the war, as this is the story of people, not a single ship. Unusually for a war story it doesn't end with the sinking of the ship. It is not an easy read: it is realistic about the casualty figures, the injuries, and the hard choices the escort captains had to make. The only heroines are the ships and the only villain the cruel sea itself. Based on the authors own vivid experiences, The Cruel Sea is the nail-biting story of the crew of HMS. Written by a Royal Navy officer who served in corvettes and on convoys, drawing on his experiences and written less than ten years after the end of the war, The Cruel Sea is considered the best novel about the Battle of the Atlantic, and one of the greatest war novels of all time. The Cruel Sea audiobook, by Nicholas Monsarrat.
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