![]() A favorite of mine was Gone With The Draft, by Park Kendall, which included cartoonish depictions of the life of an Army recruit. Monsarrat’s work was just a big novel, and I could only guess at the cruelties its title evoked. After reading it I knew and understood. I was looking for books with artwork, or photographs, and there were plenty of them. ![]() Perusing the shelves, I found a title that I remembered seeing on his first modest bookshelf back in the late-1950s, and wondering about it long before I could read beyond an elementary level, Nicolas Monsarrat’s The Cruel Sea. Mom has asked my three siblings and me to take books we’d like from Pop’s extensive library home with us. My father, a lifelong atheist in a family of six that my mother was determined would otherwise be devoutly Catholic, passed away last Easter Sunday. ![]()
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