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Originally Posted by Hellcat
Just finished reading Alistair MacLean's "HMS Ulysses" an excellent novel on all accounts. Very gripping perspective on the Russian convoys, and many other themes of the human condition. I just happened to pick it up by chance at a used book store in Cambridge.
Kinda surprising that it was not made into a movie like MacLean's other works. (Where Eagle's Dare, Force 10 from Navarone, The Guns of Navarone...)
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Sorry for bringing up this old thread. You know I don't know if HMS Ulysses could be made into a movie by Hollywood, maybe financed like Enemy at the gates was. Maybe a UK/German/Russian co-production? Just read this book myself and I really appreciate it, living high up north in the Scandinavia I found it interesting to read about the war effort up north in the cold climate. Also the descriptions of the general cruelness of the war at sea were very gripping, reminded me of some really 'disturbingly realistic' stuff.
And McLean was there on a few of those convoys, not PQ-17 though although that in a way is what that book is based on. PQ-17 would be another good subject for a war movie and would lend the movie the historical flair that it would need in case McLean's book would be seen as too fictive.