The turning point in his life (and his writing) was his service in the Royal Navy, which he joined in 1940. Son of a noted Liverpool surgeon and medical school dean, Monsarrat studied at Cambridge and became a moderately successful writer in his youth. The Cruel Sea (1953) is based on one of the great bestsellers of its day, the 1951 novel of the same title by Nicholas Monsarrat (1910-1979). Soon he is faced with the most difficult possible choice: to rescue a group of British sailors or to shoot down a German submarine. He comes to this new assignment with two strikes already against him: not only are most of his men inexperienced, he is undergoing a crisis of confidence since he lost his previous ship during a German U-boat attack. Compass Rose, a corvette (a smaller armed escort ship) sailing in the Atlantic. During World War II, Lieutenant Commander Ericson is appointed captain of the H.M.S.
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