The Cruel Sea av Nicholas Monsarrat

<p>Based on the author's own vivid experiences, <i>The Cruel Sea</i> is the nail-biting story of the crew of HMS <i>Compass Rose</i>, a corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two. <br><br>Darting back and forth across the icy North Atlantic, <i>Compass Rose</i> played a deadly cat and mouse game with packs of German U-boats lying in wait beneath the ocean waves.<br><br>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 . . .</p>