Cruel Sea [UK-Import]

von Warner Home Video - ISBN 5099990004124

Videokassette, 0 Seiten
Veröffentlichung Jan 1970 bei Warner Home Video
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Bewertung 4.0/5.0 bei 4 Meinungen
gebraucht: ab 29.99 Euro
Autor: Warner Home Video
ISBN 5099990004124
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Recommendable for anyone interested in WW2 war literature vom 29.05.2002
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The war generation has considered The Cruel Sea to be a classic of WW2 naval literature not entirely without a reason. There are scores of books about heroic deeds during the war, and from a historical viewpoint many of them are still very readable, even if they are often slightly tainted by an uncritical patriotism typical for the period, and which feels slightly out of place today. Without being in any sense unpatriotic from a British viewpoint, TCS stands out in this respect by offering a comparatively very straight and unadorned view on the lives of a group of naval soldiers during the convoy battles in the Atlantic during WW2. The protagonists at first serve on a Corvette, a small, unspectacular type of ship which was lightly armed and barely faster than the merchantmen it was guarding against U-boats. Most of the sailors are reservists and not professional soldiers, and the appeal of the book lies in how the author portrays the way these ordinary men cope with the monotony of shipboard life, the occasional numbing violence and the general hardships of war service in the Atlantic. Their personal stories are set against a historical backdrop which is highly accurate, and the overall atmosphere the book conveys is probably very close to the tiring war experience that an average sailor - who is not a hero, but as brave as the next man - would have had at the time. In my personal opinion, this approach makes the book a very valuable account of service in the Royal Navy during WW2, and I would not hesitate to recommend it to readers interested in this period.