HMS Ulysses by Alistair MacLean6/10/2023 It is an incredibly moving record of the horrors of war, not the glory. The characters are true to life in conditions where human beings are asked to exhibit personal emotional strength and bravery, a readiness to face everything thrown at them in the most terrifying and heart-stopping conditions with a unity that overcomes all that face them every day and every night too. His dramatic descriptions are very powerful. The dreadful daily conditions are appalling for the men who suffer aboard her and they are physically and emotionally stretched far beyond their human limits. These convoy runs were fraught with constant danger from the atrocious weather conditions at sea but also from the risk of destruction by Germany’s U-Boats. HMS Ulysses is a frigate which is part of the arctic convoy runs during World War II to Murmansk. This is the author's first book and he has written many more excellent sea stories too, but this one stands out for me much in the way of the novel "The Cruel Sea" I first read this brilliant heart-stopping book years ago many times over and recently bought it again.
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