The Cruel Sea

[Pinetree]

Just about finished reading this. Bought an old copy for a buck last year at a book fair and I've only just picked it up. What a brilliant novel, It just sucks you in to the Battle of the Atlantic. The author really knew his stuff. The lifeboat passages were particularly harrowing. Once I've finished the novel, I'm going to watch the film.

[Shelldrake]

I remember reading this back in high school. Great novel and the movie is really good too. I just finished watching In Harm's Way. Another great film if you like classic John Wayne WW2 movies.

[besilarius]

Cruel Sea is a magnificent book.  Monsarrat was writing from personal experience and this made it so much better than what a fiction writer could do.
If your interest in the Uboat war is increased, two other superb books are Bloody Winter, by a US Coast Guard officer, and Martin Middlebrook's Convoy.
Both are quite old, but just superb.  Probably used copies can be had very inexpensively.