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Greyhound

By: C.S. Forester
Narrated by: Jim Frangione
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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 Audio 20th Century Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins War & Military Submarine U-Boat Military War

Critic 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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Themes of:
Duty and Honor
Fatigue
Rank and Responsibility

Enjoyable listen with few dead spots in the novel. Quite fast paced which was nice.

Enjoyable Naval Novel

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Forrester's best. I was so wanting more. What a masterpiece and the performance was brilliant.

Action packed and fast moving

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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.

Excellent

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A really good story from the trials of the Atlantic in WWII. So many good men doing their deed.

An Epic

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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

A truly excellent war story

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Gripping tale of destroyer Captain leading protection for Atlantic convoy reminds how much we owe.

Another Forester naval masterpiece.

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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.

Blown Away

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puts me to sleep in no time. I guess it would be okay if you were unnaturally into boats 🤷‍♂️

fantastic book

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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.

sleep......

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