Welcome to Litsy!

This is a detailed story, taking you through every year of the war with a varied cast of characters. Some of the cast changes up throughout the book, and some are more well-rounded than others. Given the theatre of operations, there weren‘t many female characters. This would be a good pairing with HMS Ulysses, by Alistair MacLean.

Well this was a book of its time which is both a good thing and a bad thing. This book is an honest reflection of the war in the Atlantic in WW2 from the view point of the small ships, the corvettes and frigates as befits the author who was a commander of such a ship in the this period. A book of convoys, frustration, extreme violence and at time shocking loss. But as a warning, this book also has the sexual and racial politics of this period.

Not sure why but this quote struck me as the honest feelings of many seamen