MedDreamer
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One of my favourite maritime yarns is HMS Ulysses by Alistair Maclean.
I haven't read it for many, many years so it may have grown in stature in my mind but I remember being totally gripped by it. Its basically the story of escort ship on the Altlantic Convoys during WW2.
I think Maclean is poo-pooed somewhat in literary circles but his war adventures are imho good holiday type "Boys Own" reading, I agree some of his other stuff is rubbish, but Where Eagles Dare, Guns of Navarrone and HMS Ulysees are well worth a read, even if everyone knows the plot of the first two due to the countless running of the films on TV.
Martyn
I haven't read it for many, many years so it may have grown in stature in my mind but I remember being totally gripped by it. Its basically the story of escort ship on the Altlantic Convoys during WW2.
I think Maclean is poo-pooed somewhat in literary circles but his war adventures are imho good holiday type "Boys Own" reading, I agree some of his other stuff is rubbish, but Where Eagles Dare, Guns of Navarrone and HMS Ulysees are well worth a read, even if everyone knows the plot of the first two due to the countless running of the films on TV.
Martyn