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I recently finished listening to Monsarrat's The Cruel Sea. It wasn't at all like I'd assumed it would be. But that doesn't mean I didn't like it. Quite the contrary, in fact. I found it to be a very pleasant distraction. But if you're looking for naval adventures and maritime tales of derring-do, you may want to skip past this book. It turned out to be more of a character study than your typical plot-based story.
A group of Royal Navy sailors struggling against the environment and the enemy during the Battle of the Atlantic. Told in seven parts; each part describing a year in the war.
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