pickRead this as a joint read with my partner. Definitely not a book I would have chosen for myself and while I struggled with the level of nautical and military detail, I was surprisingly engaged. This book gives a very realistic look at life a ship that is part of an arctic convoy during WWII. Military operations, weather conditions, and crew dynamics are all described in a lot of detail. Men pushed to their breaking points
My partner and I are doing a joint read. He lives in Norway so we are trying to be creative with our time since we can‘t travel. This is his pick (we finished Norse Mythologies last week - my pick). It‘s pretty far out of my reading comfort zone. The sheer detail about military ship operations isn‘t my favorite but the story is starting to pick up. We‘ll see...
pickMacLean's first novel, and what a read! You haven't experienced cold like these guys on the Arctic convoys in WW2. Harrowing, amusing and moving. Worth reading if you like WW2 fiction or stories about ships and their crews.
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