The Cruel Sea
MONSARRAT, Nicholas
[Second Impression].
NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Cassell, [1951]
Stock code: 50488
Price: £195.00
8vo., Second Impression, with double-page map in the text; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip, lightly rubbed at extremities and with short closed tear at upper edge of rear panel.
Published a month after the first edition. The finest novel of the Royal Navy in WWII and a maritime classic. The story, based upon the author's own experiences, formed the basis of Charles Frend's stirring feature film (1953) starring Jack Hawkins in one of his most memorable roles. So accurate is its depiction of the Battle of the Atlantic that it is one of the very few works of fiction admitted by Law to his standard bibliography The Royal Navy in World War Two. EARLY PRINTINGS ARE INCREASINGLY ELUSIVE IN THIS CONDITION. Law, 1865 (recording the first edition).