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Cruel sea

Based on the author's own experiences, this book presents the story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two. It offers descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts. It tells of ordinary, heroic men who had to face a brutal menace which would strike without warning from the deep.

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  • "Cruel sea"@pl
  • "Cruel sea"@it
  • "Cruel sea"
  • "School edition of the cruel sea"@en
  • "Cadet edition of the cruel sea"@en

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  • "A powerful novel of the North Atlantic in World War II, telling the story of two British ships and their desparate cat-and-mouse game with Nazi U-boats."
  • "Román zachycující drama druhé světové války v Atlantiku. Příběh dvou eskortních lodí, provázejících transatlantické konvoje, z nichž jedna byla s posádkou potopena a druhá nastoupila na její místo s hrstkou zachráněných."
  • "Reprise d'un classique de la littérature maritime, paru pour la première fois en 1951. L'histoire d'un équipage anglais pendant la bataille de l'Atlantique (1939-1945)."
  • "De geschiedenis van twee schepen en hun bemanning, die in de Tweede Wereldoorlog op de Atlantische Oceaan bij het beschermen van geallieerde konvooien een voortdurende strijd voeren tegen de zee en tegen de vijand."
  • "Based on the author's own experiences, this book presents the story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two. It offers descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts. It tells of ordinary, heroic men who had to face a brutal menace which would strike without warning from the deep."@en
  • "De geschiedenis van twee schepen en hun bemanning, die in de Tweede Wereldoorlog op de Atlantische Oceaan bij het beschermen van geallieerde convooien een voortdurende strijd voeren tegen de zee en tegen de vijand."
  • "A story of naval warfare in which the men are the heroes, the ships the heroines and the villain is the cruel sea."@en
  • "The highly acclaimed 'Cruel Sea' is one of the all-time great naval and war thrillers. The film was a smash hit when released and both it and the book continue to enjoy undiminished popularity. It covers not just the details of the battle of the Atlantic, but deals with the people who fought it - their domestic triumphs, tragedies, worries and ambitions. Nicholas Monsarrat wrote: 'This is the story - the long and true story - of one ocean, two ships, and about a hundred and fifty men. It is a long story because it deals with a long and brutal battle, the worst of any war. It has two ships because one was sunk, and had to be replaced. It has a hundred and fifty men because that is a manageable number of people to tell a story about. Above all, it is a true story because that is the only kind worth telling. First, the ocean, the steep Atlantic stream. The map will tell you what that looks like: three-cornered, three thousand miles across and a thousand fathoms deep, bounded by the European coastline and half of Africa, and the vast American continent on the other side: open at the top, like a champagne glass, and at the bottom, like a municipal rubbish dumper. What the map will not tell you is the strength and fury of that ocean, its moods, its violence, its gentle balm, its treachery: what men can do with it, and what it can do with men. But this story will tell you all that. Then the ship, the first of the two, the doomed one. At the moment she seems far from doomed: she is new, untried, lying in a river that lacks the tang of salt water, waiting for the men to man her. She is a corvette, a new type of escort ship, an experiment designed to meet a desperate situation still over the horizon. She is brand new; the time is November 1939; her name is HMS Compass Rose. Lastly, the men, the hundred and fifty men. They come on the stage in twos and threes: some are early, some are late, some, like this pretty ship, are doomed. When they are all assembled, they are a company of sailors. They have women, at least a hundred and fifty women, loving them, or tied to them, or glad to see the last of them as they go to war. But the men are the stars of this story. The only heroines are the ships: and the only villain the cruel sea itself.'"@en
  • "Abridged."@en
  • "This sea saga is a classic record of the heroic struggle to keep the sea lanes open against the German U-boat menace. The men are the stars of the story. The only resources are the ships; and the only villain the cruel sea itself."
  • "Lt. Commander Ericson and his crew find they are fighting not only the Germans, but the age-old enemy, the sea, in this World War II action drama."@en
  • "It was the cruelest of battles. For the crews of the merchant ships were highly vulnerable, could scarcely fight back and had little chance to survive after after an attack."@en
  • "First published in 1951."@en

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  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Translations"@he
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Sea stories"@en
  • "Sea stories"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "War stories"@en
  • "War stories"
  • "Søromaner"@da
  • "Publishers' advertisements (Publishing)"
  • "Bookplates (Provenance)"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Opowiadania wojenne angielskie"@pl
  • "Opowiadania wojenne angielskie"
  • "English prose"
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Romány"
  • "Krig"@da
  • "Válečné romány"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "English fiction"
  • "English fiction"@he

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  • "Det grymma havet : [en roman]"
  • "Havet sletter alle spor / Omsl.: Verner Larsen : 3. oplag"@da
  • "The cruel sea : [A novel]"
  • "Cruel sea"@en
  • "Cruel sea"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Okrutne morze"@pl
  • "Okrutne morze"
  • "The cruel sea"@en
  • "The cruel sea"
  • "La mer cruelle"
  • "Havet sletter alle spor / Omsl.: Verner Larsen"@da
  • "The cruel sea. [read by John Thaw and cast]"@en
  • "La Mer cruelle : roman"
  • "Havet sletter alle spor"@da
  • "The Cruel Sea"
  • "The Cruel Sea"@en
  • "Mar cruel"@es
  • "Mar cruel"
  • "Kruté moře"
  • "Grosser Atlantik : Roman"
  • "הים האכזר"
  • "Hij@o no umi"
  • "非情の海 = The cruel sea"
  • "Okrutne morze. [Tłumaczyła Maria Boduszyńska.]"
  • "The cruel sea : the great novel of war at sea"@en
  • "The cruel sea. [Shortened and edited for young people.]"@en
  • "The cruel sea : notes"
  • "Julm meri; roman"
  • "Julm Meri : romaan"
  • "La Mer cruelle. Roman"
  • "The cadet edition of the cruel sea"@en
  • "The Cruel sea : selected and edited by André Bodin"
  • "Grosser Atlantik"
  • "Det grymma havet"@sv
  • "TheCruel Sea"
  • "La mer cruelle : [Roman]"
  • "Okrutne Morze"
  • "The Cadet edition of The cruel sea"@en
  • "Grausamer Atlantik : Roman"
  • "The Cruel sea. [17th edition.]"
  • "Mirea crudă"
  • "Mare crudele"@it
  • "Mare crudele"
  • "The Cruel Sea ... Edited for schools by Andrew Scotland"@en
  • "La Mer cruelle : "The cruel sea"
  • "CRUEL SEA"
  • "The Cruel sea"
  • "The Cruel sea"@en
  • "ha-Yam ha-akhzar"
  • "Farlig hav : roman"
  • "The cruel sea [Motion picture]"@en
  • "Grosser Atlantik Roman"
  • "非情の海"
  • "The cruel sea : (a novel)"@en
  • "Julma meri : romaani"@fi
  • "La mer cruelle : roman"
  • "Farlig hav"
  • "Hijō no umi = The cruel sea"
  • "Julma meri"@fi
  • "Druté moře"
  • "Julm meri : romaan"
  • "Mar cruel = (the cruel sea)"@es
  • "Grosser Atlantik : roman"
  • "The Cruel Sea. (Cadet edition.)"@en
  • "Hijō no umi"
  • "Hijō no umi"@ja
  • "Grosser Atlantik, roman"
  • "La mer cruelle (The cruel sea)"
  • "La Mer cruelle"
  • "The cruel sea [10th ed.]"
  • "The cruel Sea"
  • "Grausamer Atlantik Roman"
  • "De wrede zee"

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