Due for release on 8th May 2020 is the Tom Hanks film Greyhound which is based on the C.S. Forester novel 'The Good Shepherd' and tells the story of a USN captain who has to escort a convoy through U-Boat infested waters. Also starts Stephen Graham. IMDb: Greyhound (2020) - IMDb
I don't know whether it makes sense to worry about this but I haven't seen a trailer released for it yet.
From memory no It's a good book and about more than one ship - in it the hero has to juggle a number of escort vessels (RN, RCN etc) as well as his own and the convoy. It tells one a great deal more about the choices a commander in that situation would have to make than does the Cruel Sea. The original title came in part because the commander is a religious man given to quoting psalms
Das Boot - book and movie (brief post on it in this prior thread) I've been meaning to read the book, the Good Shepherd, as agreed, it does sound rather like the "Cruel Sea", albeit with a US skipper. Both came out fairly close together... The Cruel Sea (novel) - Wikipedia The Good Shepherd (novel) - Wikipedia
I'm just over half way through it now. It reads, I think, as a pretty good basis for a film script. I'm a bit intrigued though by the Captain's wife. ;-) Though already mentioned in passing, she's not really a major character in the book thus far :-( Greyhound (film) - Wikipedia Cast Tom Hanks as Commander Ernest Krause, USN Elisabeth Shue as Eva Krause Manuel Garcia-Rulfo Stephen Graham Rob Morgan Karl Glusman Tom Brittney Joseph Poliquin Devin Druid as Wallace Maximillion Osinski as Eagle Grayson Russell as Signalman #1 Dave Davis Michael Benz
Thanks Ramilies for the reminder about The Cruel Sea. Which I read soon after it was published. Very emotional, because my Dad was in the RN during WW2 on a ship protecting the brave MN ships, who had no way to protect themselves.
I started to watch the film but couldn't continue after about 20 mins as my tears were flowing.. They were keeping us safe and fed, but at what cost?
The Battle of the Atlantic is all too often seen as a defensive action - it was not it was the beginning of the Allied offensive against Germany. Winning it was vital to Operation Bolero which was the build up of material and men in Britain for an invasion of Western Europe (originally Roundup and then Overlord). Dramatic changes in agricultural strategy (including a shift to arable cultivation) meant that whilst Britain might have gone hungry(ier) had the BotA been lost Germany was not going to be able to starve her out but Bolero would have failed and with it the prospects of an Allied invasion in the West.