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Nicholas Monsarrat. 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 ...
- Marc, Anthony, and Max
- Lawyer, writer, sailor
- English
- Eileen Rowland, Phillipa Crosby, and Ann Griffiths
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.
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Aug 9, 1979 · Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat was born March 22, 1910, in Liverpool, Britain's second‐largest port, the son of a successful surgeon, Dr. Keith Waldegrave Monsarrat, and Marguerite Turney Monsarrat.
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Nicholas Monsarrat has 109 books on Goodreads with 22340 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. The novel, based on the author's experience of serving in corvettes and frigates in the North Atlantic in ...
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March 22, 1910. Died. August 08, 1979. Genre. Literature & Fiction, Biography. edit data. Born on Rodney Street in Liverpool, Monsarrat was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge. He intended to practise law. The law failed to inspire him, however, and he turned instead to writing, moving to London and supporting himself as a ...
Nicholas Monsarrat. A powerful novel of the North Atlantic in World War II, this is the story of the British ships Compass Rose and Saltash and of their desparate cat-and-mouse game with Nazi U-boats. First published to great acclaim in 1951, The Cruel Sea remains a classic novel of endurance and daring.
