Man in the Yellow Raft
1969
First Published
4.09
Average Rating
190
Number of Pages
This collection of stories is a nostalgic and compelling picture of men serving with the U S Navy during World War II. With disarming insight into the laughter and pain, Spartan discomfort, monotony, lack of privacy, and never-ending threats that make war what it is, Forester steers a tight course for the truth, action, and entertainment. You will be a witness to courage and discipline amid great danger and the ever-present threat of death. This is a great collection, showing once more the Forester talent for telling a fine story and telling it well.
Avg Rating
4.09
Number of Ratings
235
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Author
C.S. Forester
Author · 46 books
Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure and military crusades. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, about naval warfare during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). His novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
