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    A Study Guide for Nicholas Monsarrat's "The Cruel Sea"
    A Study Guide for Nicholas Monsarrat's "The Cruel Sea"
    A Study Guide for Nicholas Monsarrat's "The Cruel Sea"
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    A Study Guide for Nicholas Monsarrat's "The Cruel Sea"

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    A Study Guide for Nicholas Monsarrat's "The Cruel Sea," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535836029
    A Study Guide for Nicholas Monsarrat's "The Cruel Sea"

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      A Study Guide for Nicholas Monsarrat's "The Cruel Sea" - Gale

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      The Cruel Sea

      Nicholas Monsarrat

      1951

      Introduction

      The Cruel Sea is a novel written in 1951 by British author Nicholas Monsarrat. The novel is set during World War II and depicts the six-year-long Battle of the Atlantic from the point of view of sailors in Great Britain's navy, who faced constant threats from German submarines. In particular, Monsarrat, who based the novel on his own wartime experience, wanted to convey the point of view of sailors on small ships such as corvettes (small, fast, lightly armed warships of less than a thousand tons) and frigates (generally larger than corvettes but less than two thousand tons) that were used primarily as escorts for convoys of supply ships and in antisubmarine warfare. (These figures for the size of the ships refer to the amount of water the ship displaces.) These sailors faced as much danger from the cruel sea as they did from German submarines.

      Monsarrat was a prolific author who wrote more than three dozen books over his career. The Cruel Sea, though, was perhaps his most popular novel and the one book from the author's body of work that is still widely read. The popularity of The Cruel Sea and the reputation of Monsarrat were enhanced by a 1953 film adaptation of the novel, which brought the story to a wider audience. While many novels written during the war were patriotic novels intended to boost morale and support for the war among citizens, The Cruel Sea was a major work during the postwar period when many writers were giving greater emphasis to the cruelty and horror of war.

      The Cruel Sea is available in a 1969 edition published by Alfred A. Knopf.

      Author Biography

      Monsarrat was born on March 22, 1910, in Liverpool, England, where he grew up in comfortable circumstances. His father was an eminent surgeon; his mother ran the household with a strictness that Monsarrat came to resent. In his early years, he was sent to boarding school, where he was mercilessly bullied. During his youth, he took up sailing as a form of escape from what he saw as a repressive home life, and his sailing skills would prepare him for his later career in the British navy. Indeed, during World War II, the British navy actively recruited people with yachting or boating experience. He attended Trinity College at Cambridge University, earning a bachelor's degree in law in 1931. He worked for two years in a lawyer's office, but he quickly concluded that

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