# The Cruel Sea

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- Authors: [Nicholas Monsarrat](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicholas-monsarrat)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2009-08-06

## Description

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

## Editions

### The Cruel Sea

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4104-283-1
- Pages: 448
- Published: 2009-08-06
- Language: en_GB