![]() ![]() ![]() I jumped on HMS as it was the "good one" that I never read as I heard it was "different," and was the authors first major published book, so I knew it would not be typical. Granted I read many of them as a much younger kid growing up in South Africa, but they were always exciting and so I was thrilled when they finally released the audio books here on Audible. 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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