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Narrated by:
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Jim Frangione
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By:
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C.S. Forester
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
Film tie-in originally published as The Good Shepherd.
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks.
It's 1942. America have just joined the war.
Greyhound, an international convoy of 37 allied ships, is in operation. As Captain Ernest Krause leads his first command of a US destroyer, the convoy ploughs through icy, submarine-infested North Atlantic seas.
All the while hotly pursued by wolf packs of Nazi U-boats.
Grappling with his newfound superiority and haunting self-doubt in 48 hours of desperate peril, Captain Krause's hopeless mission is doomed to fail.
But armed with extraordinary courage and grit, hope may just be on the horizon....
©1955 C.S. Forester (P)2020 Penguin AudioCritic Reviews
"I recommend Forester to every literate I know." (Ernest Hemingway)
"Action, tension, tingling suspense.... The greatest adventure story to come out of World War II." (Life Magazine)
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- Hermand
- 26-12-2020
Enjoyable Naval Novel
Themes of:
Duty and Honor
Fatigue
Rank and Responsibility
Enjoyable listen with few dead spots in the novel. Quite fast paced which was nice.
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- Raymond
- 12-03-2024
Action packed and fast moving
Forrester's best. I was so wanting more. What a masterpiece and the performance was brilliant.
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- Yasdnil Dlareg
- 12-09-2022
Excellent
Not for everyone, you would need to have an interest in warfare, some of the technical jargon would lose many, what I love about this story is that it gives a real inside view of what men must do in the time of war.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-10-2024
An Epic
A really good story from the trials of the Atlantic in WWII. So many good men doing their deed.
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- Adam
- 28-12-2020
A truly excellent war story
i enjoyed this immensely. an enthralling war story with a very interesting protagonist.
some other readers had criticisms about it being too complex to follow all the battle maneuvers and navigation - which is true, you'd need a map and a degree in nautical navigation to follow it - but you dont need to follow it, you just need to get a feel for the complexity and confusion of naval battles
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- Jayare
- 17-07-2022
Another Forester naval masterpiece.
Gripping tale of destroyer Captain leading protection for Atlantic convoy reminds how much we owe.
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- Gary Rowbotham
- 28-10-2020
Blown Away
Good story but as my first ever audio book found it hard to concentrate on the story. Many a time I fell asleep and hence lost a lot in contact as the book doesn't stop when you nod off.
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- Matthew
- 01-09-2020
fantastic book
puts me to sleep in no time. I guess it would be okay if you were unnaturally into boats 🤷♂️
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- Mattieu
- 17-03-2022
sleep......
great if you're wanting to be bored to sleep....endless detail of weather, capitan's every thought and movement etc etc. I guess if you were really into this particular aspect of WW2 then, maybe, you'd enjoy.
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