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Lieutenant Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FRSL RNVR (/ ˈ m ɒ n s ə r æ t / 22 March 1910 – 8 August 1979) was a British novelist known for his sea stories, particularly The Cruel Sea (1951) and Three Corvettes (1942–45), but perhaps known best internationally for his novels, The Tribe That Lost Its Head and its sequel, Richer ...
Nicholas Monsarrat has 110 books on Goodreads with 22608 ratings. Nicholas Monsarrat’s most popular book is The Cruel Sea (Classics of War).
Nicholas Monsarrat (born March 22, 1910, Liverpool, Eng.—died Aug. 8, 1979, London) was a popular English novelist whose best-known work, The Cruel Sea, vividly captured life aboard a small ship in wartime.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Cruel Sea is a 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War. It contains seven chapters, each describing a year during the war.
- Nicholas Monsarrat
- 1951
Aug 9, 1979 · Nicholas Monsarrat, the British amateur sailor turned author who wrote the best‐selling novel “The Cruel Sea” and two dozen other books, died of cancer Tuesday in a London hospital. He...
His lifelong love of sailing made him a capable naval officer, and he served with distinction in a series of small warships assigned to escort convoys and protect them from enemy attack. Monsarrat ended the war as commander of a frigate, and drew on his wartime experience in his postwar sea stories.
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The Cruel Sea. Nicholas Monsarrat. 4.21. 7,772 ratings435 reviews. A powerful novel of the North Atlantic in World War II, this is the story of the British ships Compass Rose and Saltash and of their desparate cat-and-mouse game with Nazi U-boats.
