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Three Corvettes
Author: Nicholas Monsarrat
Hard cover, with dust jacket. Fair condition.
Three Corvettes by Nicholas Monsarrat is a compelling wartime memoir, originally published as three separate volumes (H.M. Corvette, East Coast Corvette, and Corvette Command) between 1942 and 1944 and later combined into one volume. Monsarrat draws on his own service as an RNVR officer during the Battle of the Atlantic, offering richly detailed, semi-autobiographical accounts of life aboard the small but vital Flower‑class corvettes as they escorted convoys through U‑boat‑infested waters (resolutereader.blogspot.com, Everything Explained Today, Goodreads). More than just action at sea, the narrative immerses the reader in the tedium, fear, heroism, and loss experienced by seamen on constant alert—recording rescues, near‑misses, and the human cost of survival (resolutereader.blogspot.com, resolutereader.blogspot.com). Written and published during the war itself, the book conveys immediacy and authenticity—and serves as a powerful precursor to Monsarrat’s later classic, The Cruel Sea (hachette.com.au, allbookstores.com).
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