An English novelist who served as a lieutenant commander of escort vessels in World War II. NICHOLAS MONSARRAT is best known in this country for his stirring book, THE CRUEL SEA. Now a Canadian resident, Mr. Monsarrat has traveled widely in Europe, Africa, and North America — a fact which he here treats in a satiric vein.
An Englishman who served as a lieutenant commander of escort vessels in the Second World War, NICHOLAS MONSAHRAT writes in the great tradition of the English seafarers. His novel, THE CRUEL SEA, touched millions of readers here and in England at the war’s end, and because of it we asked him to recall that moment of supreme crisis when England stood with her hack to the wall — the Battle of Dunkirk.
An Englishman who served as a Lieutenant Commander of the R. N. V. R. in command of escort vessels in the Second World War, NICHOLAS MONSARRAT writes in the great tradition of English seafarers. The narrative which follows is a condensation of one section of The Cruel Sea, a long novel about the men and ships that played a part in the Battle of the North Atlantic - the most protracted, the cruelest, and perhaps the most heroic battle of World War II. The Cruel Sea, the midsummer selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, is to be published by Knopf.