In fiction form, this is the story of the Murmansk run - and of the
attempt to get convoy , FF77, through, under the inadequate
protection of a few cruisers, most of them outmod??. The Ulysses
had been a lucky ship, fast, equipped with radar, with a captain
who was worshipped by his crew. But Captain Vallery and his
officers and men had taken more than humans should be asked to
take- and when mutiny was in the making, it seemed to all
Justifiable. Rear-Admiral Tyndall felt it so - and the chief
surgeon, Brooks, did not hesitate to speak his mind. But the home
office was adamant - and the ?? Lysses was on its way once more.
From that moment on, it was unadulterated hell. The weather turned
vicious; the temperature dropped to an unbelievably low figure; and
the German wolf pack made the most of every opportunity. One ship
after another of the convoy was sacrificed; Vallery was forced into
decisions that tore him apart; disease took its toll- with Vallery
himself its ultimate victim; madness, too, stalked the decks and
Tyndall's sanity cracked. Men performed deeds far beyond the call
of duty; and those who fell short of greatness paid the price. The
clearing weather brought out the bombers- and more ships were sent
to the bottom. And still the shrinking convoy went on towards the
goal. Nichols, Junior medic, was transferred by breeches buoy to
another ship in need - and so Nichols alone survived to tell the
story of the death of a great fighter, as the Ulysses made the
supreme sacrifice in an effort to take final payment. It is an
unbearable story, completely unrelieved in its stark and bitter
march of death and destruction. Supremely well done- but can the
reading public take it? MacLean is English. Much of the lingo is
perhaps too British for some readers, in the same sense that
Monsarrat's H.M.S. Corvette proved too British. But the human
factors here outwright the difficulties and may carry the reader
through. (Kirkus Reviews)
The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th
century's greatest writers of action and suspense -- an acclaimed
classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. Now reissued in a
new cover style. The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to
something greater, HMS Ulysses takes its place alongside The Caine
Mutiny and The Cruel Sea as one of the classic novels of the navy
at war. It is the compelling story of Convoy FR77 to Murmansk -- a
voyage that pushes men to the limits of human endurance, crippled
by enemy attack and the bitter cold of the Arctic.
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