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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
I presume you're familiar with The Enemy Below. Not only a fun movie presenting both sides of the battle (except these days I can't get away from that awful fake 'u-boat' interior). Still, one of the all-time greats.
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I read the book before I saw the movie. As often happens when one does this, the movie was a disappointment, not only because the movie transfomed a RN Western Approaches destroyer into a USN DE, and the u-boat into something almost the size of a cruise ship. Even the book required a fair amount of suspension of disbelief.
In contrast, Monsarrat's works have an aura of authenticity that I have yet to see matched for the allied navies of that era and theatre of operations.
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