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Lieutenant Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FRSL RNVR ( / ˈmɒnsəræt / [1] 22 March 1910 – 8 August 1979) was a British novelist known for his sea stories, particularly The Cruel Sea (1951) and Three Corvettes (1942–45), but perhaps known best internationally for his novels, The Tribe That Lost Its Head and its sequel, Richer Than All His...
Mar 27, 2024 · Nicholas Monsarrat (born March 22, 1910, Liverpool, Eng.—died Aug. 8, 1979, London) was a popular English novelist whose best-known work, The Cruel Sea, vividly captured life aboard a small ship in wartime. Monsarrat took a bachelor’s degree in law at Trinity College, Cambridge, and then spent two years in a solicitor’s office.
Aug 9, 1979 · Nicholas Monsarrat, the British amateur sailor turned author who wrote the best‐selling novel “The Cruel Sea” and two dozen other books, died of cancer Tuesday in a London hospital. He was 69...
Nicholas Monsarrat has 109 books on Goodreads with 22447 ratings. Nicholas Monsarrat’s most popular book is The Cruel Sea (Classics of War).
The Cruel Sea is a 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War. It contains seven chapters, each describing a year during the war.
He turned to writing full-time in 1959, settling first on Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, and later on the Mediterranean island of Gozo (Malta). Monsarrat's first three novels, published in 1934–1937 and now out of print, were realistic treatments of modern social problems informed by his leftist politics.
Mar 1, 1974 · Nicholas Monsarrat. 4.10. 693 ratings94 reviews. As bombs pound Malta to dust, Father Salvatore--a simple priest, or kappillan, serving the poor--finds himself caught in the drama of World War Two.
