Reply With QuoteEnjoyed all of Monsarrat's books, many that he wrote were about his love of the sea and his life experiences as a very capable naval officer in the RNVR.
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat.
My original copy fell apart from use a few years ago so i thought it time to get a new copy.
Top stuff.
The movie The Cruel Sea with Jack Hawkins has always been my favourite war film. I had it on VHS and a few years ago I got it on DVD.
I watch it at least once a year.
As an aside my Aunty Dianne married an English submarina, Arthur Trivett ( Trev ) just after the war.
He and his two brothers Henry and Eddie were all in the submarine service.
Trev was sunk three times in his subs but survived.
When I was a kid I loved to listen to their tales about submarines.
All the boys gone now. RIP.
Needless to say that my second favourite war movie is Das Boot.
I have it also on DVD.
Below is a pick of Dianne with the three brothers.
Enjoyed all of Monsarrat's books, many that he wrote were about his love of the sea and his life experiences as a very capable naval officer in the RNVR.
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SupporterHello from Bulawayo.
The adventures of the Compass Rose were certainly good reading - I also have a battered copy on my bookshelf back in Brisbane.
I found it one day in a pile of old books at CSIRO's (former) Narayen Research Station out west of Mundubbera when I was looking for something to read. This would have been about 1995. It had a stamp in it from the Eidsvold State School Library and appears to have been borrowed some time in the mid-1960s.
I did ring them to see if they wanted it back, but was told that it was likely written off and to enjoy it - I did indeed.
It brought some memories back of a stay in Launceston hospital many years ago after some minor surgery where I found myself sharing a recovery ward with an older fellow who had originally come from Canada. He had been in the Merchant Navy in the convoys to Murmansk and had some really interesting tales to tell - especially of winter conditions and what it was like to be under U boat attack.
Cheers
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SubscriberMany RANVR Officers & men served on the Corvettes in the Battle of the Atlantic, some with Monserrat, I believe, Bob
[ame="http://youtu.be/fP5ELoUkU4M"]Battle of The Atlantic(part 1) The flower class Corvettes - YouTube[/ame]
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
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SubscriberHere's a version of " The Cruel Sea " I bet you haven't heard, Bob
[ame="http://youtu.be/4LDkgcSex9o"]Nicholas Monsarrat's 'The Cruel Sea', adapted for radio. - YouTube[/ame]
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
Killer Wabbit!
Go Hornblower!
When a hero had faults.
Jonesfam
ChatterBox
SupporterHello again.Originally Posted by jonesfam
There is a new book out on the life of Sir Edward Pellew who (the author argues) was the greatest frigate Captain the RN ever had.
Apparently, the inspiration for the Hornblower books and more than likely Jack Aubrey.
Rose to head of the Admiralty, but had plenty of faults - lack of bravery and fighting skill wasn't one them however.
Cheers,
Killer Wabbit!
Do you have the name of the book & author.
I would be very interested.
Jonesfam
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SubscriberSir Edward Pellew, Bob
Admiral Edward Pellew: The true history of this most novel Captain | Jane Austen Centre
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
The Cruel Sea is my favourite book of naval fiction but my favourite author is Douglas Reeman.
I have all his books and most of them are getting pretty tattered.
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