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Title: Recalled Fondly While Discussing Royal Navy History
Review: I was discussing Royal Navy history with a British friend who was recommending a number of books about the topic, and I recalled reading MacLean's HMS Ulysses perhap five times as a teenager 35 years ago. He had never heard of the book, though he was familiar with the author.I commended the title to him, and have since re-read it myself. It remains one of the most fraught and depressing, but extraordinarily compelling, novels of naval warfare I've read. MacLean's character development - like the detail and minutiae of the wartime nautical world on the Murmansk run - is intense and complete, even as the characters die from the myriad perils that surround them.This is an epic story of men's ability to endure, the indifference of the sea and the weather, and the stark cruellty of war.
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