![]() I have read most of Maclean's works and really enjoyed most of them. One doesn't get to know the eventual survivors in any detail. The characters are never more than caricatures. Even a plot like that might not be a big obstacle, but the events described during the escorting mission are far worse than anything experienced in reality by a convoy, even PQ-17 which was almost entirely destroyed. Perhaps that is the reason that this book was never filmed. As soon as you develop an affinity with a character, the story line changes. However, readers will probably realize that HMS Ulysses falls into the "everybody dies" category. I don't want to give any spoilers which makes describing the rest of the book difficult. A mutiny on a Royal Navy cruiser during the war? Everyone involved would have been severely punished. Almost from the beginning though the story of HMS Ulysses felt not real. I was looking forward to a thriller about the arctic convoys in WWII, which is a subject I'm somewhat knowledgeable about. ![]()
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