The Cruel Sea

Literature & Fiction

Nicholas Monsarrat

Genre Fiction

Penguin??Books

524 pages of excellent text. First Edition.

The master mariner

Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrate

<p>524 pages of excellent text, with many great illustrations. A wonderful story of sea-going adventure. An action-packed novel that brings alive the cruel sea and the valiant men who have sailed on it. First Edition.</p>

The Master Mariner. Book 2. Darken Ship.

Littlehampton Book Services Lt

Contemporary

Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated

Children's Books

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

Reprint Society

Life Is a Four Letter Word: Breaking in v. 1

Pan/Macmillan

Ian Carrington betrays his pregnant wife, and his young brother-in-law then plans a terrible revenge. This is despite his own involvement with Ian’s sister. There follows murder, blackmail and a very exciting and unexpected conclusion to this gripping tale set in a fashionable Swiss ski-resort.

The Whipping Boy

Pan Books

This is Nicholas Monsarrat’s final masterpiece, an epic tale of the sea and seafaring from the sixteenth century to near the end of the twentieth. Told from the point of view of Mathew Lawe, a young Devon sailor who is cursed after a spectacular act of cowardice to wander “the wild waters till all the seas run dry,” it is historical fiction but beset by real events. Lawe represents the spirit of maritime exploration and fortitude; his life is the thread stringing together a long history of nautical adventure. He finds himself mixed up with Drake and the Armada; a buccaneer under Sir Henry Morgan in the Caribbean; press-ganged aboard the Shannon just before her duel with the American Chesapeake, and much more! Nicholas Monsarrat died before Book II was finished. Anne Monsarrat completed the remainder of the story in Nicholas’s own words, partly from some working notes he left and partly from his original synopsis of The Master Mariner Book II. Both are included here.

The Master Mariner: Running Proud

British & Irish

Nicholas Monsarrat, unquestionably the best writer on sea warfare during World War II, saw the horror firsthand as a frigate captain in the British Navy. In dramatic, vivid language, this unforgettable collection records the terrible years between 1940 and 1943. It includes the autobiographical It Was Cruel; A Ship to Remember, about the sinking of the Lancastria in 1940 (3,000 men lost their lives); and I Was There, HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbour, and The Ship That Died of Shame--three short fictional pieces.

Three Corvettes

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