H.M.S. Ulysses (Paperback)

from setnahkt

I thought of Alastair MacLean as a writer of implausible potboilers, but this, his first novel, is not bad at all. MacLean had served on a Dido-class light cruiser on Murmansk runs - including the infamous Convoy PQ17 - so he knew what he was talking about in this account of the fictional HMS Uly...

from DinadansFriend

The crew and the Dido Class cruiser, are sacrificed on the Murmansk run. This is an example of very competent genre fiction, and could be seen as the ancestor of books like "We All Died at Breakaway Station" in Science fiction.

from bnielsen

Nordatlanten, ca 1943. Den lette krydser H.M.S. Ulysses bliver sat til at bevogte en konvoj FR 77 til Murmansk. Konvojen skal levere livsvigtig ammuntion, tanks og brændstof til russerne, men samtidig er den lokkemad for Tirpitz. Ulysses er flagskib for bevogningsstyrken på 12 skibe, der skal mød...

from breic

A fine thriller. It starts slow, but builds into a nightmare. Very exciting. I still prefer Monsarrat's "The Cruel Sea," for its characterizations and plotting—it is more than a historical thriller.

from setnahkt

I thought of Alastair MacLean as a writer of implausible potboilers, but this, his first novel, is not bad at all. MacLean had served on a Dido-class light cruiser on Murmansk runs – including the infamous Convoy PQ17 – so he knew what he was talking about in this account of the fictional HMS Uly...