The ship

de C. S. Forester

Although it is now 75 years old, this is one of the finest naval novels ever written, capturing in painstaking detail the personalities and technicalities involved in directing a fighting ship, in this case a Light Cruiser , in a battle which in reality was one of the decisive naval battles in the European War of 1939-45 ( 2nd battle of Sirte, which saved Malta for the Allied Forces))