- Title: The Cruel Sea
- Author: Nicholas Monsarrat
- Borrowed from MD Public Library (Worcester County, Ocean City, MD), Kindle Edition
- Started: 4/6/2016
- Finished: 4/20/2016
I have Herman Wouk (courtesy of the WSJ) to thank for this recommendation. The Cruel Sea was one of five works Mr. Wouk recommended for great nautical yarns, and I can't begin to describe how much this work touched me. I did not know anything about the work (or Monsarrat), and would likely have never heard of or read this book without Wouk/WSJ recommendation.
These are fictional characters, who we meet at the start of the WW2 through the end, and by the middle of this book I cared more about these sailors than I did about most of my fellow man. That sounds terrible, but I was so engrossed by the story, and worried about these men, and had a hard time concentrating on anything other than their ordeal. A very powerful book.
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