Made into a film in 1953, starring Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden and Denholm Elliott. It was one of the first novels to depict life aboard the vital, but unglamorous, 'small ships' of World War II, ships for which the sea was as much a threat as the Germans. Based on the authors own experiences and made. It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during World. It is a long story because it deals with a long and brutal. The Cruel Sea, Knopf, 1951, New York NF/none The finest novel of the Royal Navy in WWll and a maritime classic. The Cruel Sea is a 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat.
Based on his own wartime service, it followed the young naval officer Keith Lockhart through a series of postings in corvettes and frigates. Nicholas Monsarrat wrote: 'This is the story - the long and true story - of one ocean, two ships, and about a hundred and fifty men. Monsarrat's (1910-79), first post war novel, widely regarded as his finest work. Some edge wear, chipping, creasing and long closed tears to top and bottom of jacket and spine, large creased tear to back jacket and 3" loss along spine hinge, corners rubbed with small loss, some spotting to prelims, page block and endpapers, not price clipped (12/6), no inscriptions, otherwise internally clean tight and square, overall a reasonable and obviously well read copy for its age. First published in August 1951, this is an twelfth edition of 1953 (a tribute to the book's popularity).
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