The most closely related of Monsarrat's other titles is Three Corvettes (1945). The three parts of this book originally appeared separately as short novels: H. M. Corvette (1943), East Coast Corvette (1943), and Corvette Command (1944). Composed aboard ship while Monsarrat was on active duty in the North Atlantic, these books are based upon journals and notes kept during that same period. Called fiction then, and listed as novels, they might more recently have been called "new journalism," for they are vivid first-person accounts of actual experiences. Among other features, one may observe here more bitterness toward those who in various ways benefited from the war without concomitant risks, as well as those who benefited in frivolous ways from the sacrifices of Monsarrat's comrades-in-arms, some of whose lives seem to have been ended so that others, ashore in England, could wear nylons or take holiday drives on extra gasoline. Also...