The Good Shepherd
Book Details
| Title: | The Good Shepherd | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1955 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Little, Brown and Company | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, historical, navy, World War II, film/TV adaptation | ||||||||||
| Description: | Forester’s novel is on a par with Nicholas Monsarrat’s “The Cruel Sea” and D. A. Rayner’s “The Long Haul.” It follows the course of a convoy of freighters and tankers as it encounters a u-boat wolf pack in the western approaches to Great Britain. Forester’s central character is George Krause, an American destroyer commander in his mid-40s who is in command of the convoy’s four-ship escort. Krause is a professional sailor who has been at sea for thirteen years in a twenty-year career, and who is encountering naval combat for the first time. Krause is a religious man, and his thinking is studded with biblical references, but the references are all highly descriptive of his situation. They are integral to his character. He is a very competent leader without much charisma, but his stern commitment to duty, a feature also reflected in the biblical allusions, is compelling.—Larry at Goodreads.com. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Comments: | The book was adapted for the screen in a 2020 movie called "Greyhound" starring Tom Hanks. | ||||||||||
| Downloads: | 10,915 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 216  |
Author Bio for Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton
(1899-1966) Forester wrote many novels. He is best known for the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. He began the series with Hornblower fairly high in rank in the first novel, published in 1937. The last completed novel was published in 1962. With demand for more stories, Forester filled in Hornblower's life story, in effect. Hornblower's fictional feats were based on real events, but Forester wrote the body of the works carefully to avoid entanglements with real world history, so that Hornblower is always off on another mission when a great naval victory occurs during the Napoleonic Wars.
Forester's other novels include The African Queen (1935) and The General (1936); Peninsular War novels in Death to the French (published in the United States as Rifleman Dodd) and The Gun (filmed as The Pride and the Passion in 1957); and seafaring stories that did not involve Hornblower, such as Brown on Resolution (1929), The Captain from Connecticut (1941), The Ship (1943), and Hunting the Bismarck (1959), which was used as the basis of...
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