![]() ![]() The hardness of the experience, and how it affected the everyday people caught up in it, was profound. Eventually of course the tides turn and victory is gained but even at the end, a feeling of sadness and loss prevails. Further, the author does a fine job making the reader feel the wildness of the weather and the sea, and the anxiety and frustration of trying to shepherd a convoy at night without modern navigation and other aids, while at any moment a deadly enemy might strike. To this American listener the prose was very British (the narrator as well, who did a great job), and it gave me a particular insight into the British viewpoint and approach to the war. Monsarrat captures not only the historical reality of what being in these ships was like, but also the values and personal qualities of the people of the era. ![]() ![]() The Atlantic war was brutal, harsh, demanding, and thankless in many regards as-especially at the beginning of the war-the escorting corvettes vainly tried to protect allied shipping from the dreaded U-Boats. This is a dark and starkly realistic story describing the lives of British naval officers who escorted Atlantic convoys during WWII. ![]()
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