![]() With each day bringing greater destruction, and increasing hardships aboard the frozen cruiser, it soon becomes a tense and deadly game of cat and mouse between the crippled Ulysses and her silent pursuers. 'High-powered dramatics.' San Francisco Chronicle. It is vintage MacLean - and unforgettable. Ulysses' takes its place alongside 'The Caine Mutiny' and 'The Cruel Sea' as one of the classic novels of the navy, its men and its ships, at war. Surging deep into the frozen Arctic waters, they must battle not only the fierce weather, but German attacks from the air, the sea, and beneath the waves, as the feared U-boats close in on their prey. The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, 'H.M.S. ![]() Already pushed beyond the limits of endurance, HMS Ulysses and her crew must put to sea again, to escort a vital supply convoy heading for Murmansk. ![]()
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