[egroat]

It is a shame Hollywood has a tendency to portray the successes of the Allies in general as being conducted purely by American citizens.

Of course it doesn't help that the other nations don't actively promote their forces in the same manner the Americans do - perhaps good, perhaps bad.

[arethuza]

There are some splendid UK films about the Battle of the Atlantic - my favourite being The Cruel Sea.

NB The author of the novel on which the The Cruel Sea is based, Nicholas Monsarrat, wrote a moving account of his own service - Three Corvettes - which is one of the few books that has reduced me to tears. Funnily enough I happened to read the book while flying over the North Atlantic...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Monsarrat

[porker]

> NB The author of the novel on which the The Cruel Sea is based, Nicholas Monsarrat, wrote a moving account of his own service - Three Corvettes - which is one of the few books that has reduced me to tears. Funnily enough I happened to read the book while flying over the North Atlantic...

Alistair MacLean's HMS Ulysses is another of those. I read it as a teenager and a couple of scenes are as sharp in my mind as the day I read it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ulysses_(novel)

[tcopeland]

That is a fantastic book indeed. It's on the Combat Studies Institute reading list, and rightly so.

[jvehent]

The serie Foyle's War has excellent details about the impact of the war on normal citizens of southeast UK. I grew up in Normandie, on the other side of the channel, and heard the same stories from my grand-parents.

[steveplace]

That narrative worked 50 years ago but not anymore.