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==Literature== [[File:Men of valor - They fight for you.jpg|thumb|right|Wartime artwork of [[Hal Lawrence]] and {{HMCS|Oakville|K178|6}}.]] * [[Alex H. Cherry]] wrote ''Yankee R N'', the story of a Wall Street banker who volunteered for active duty in the RN, including details of Flower operations. * Peter Coy, who served in {{HMS|Narcissus|K74|2}} in the North Atlantic between June 1942 and August 1944, wrote 'The Echo of a Fighting Flower' about her and B3 Escort Group, comprising two British and four Free French corvettes. * [[Hugh Garner]] wrote ''Storm Below'' which provides a detailed account of Flower-class corvettes and the stresses of shipboard life during World War II. * [[James B. Lamb]] wrote ''The Corvette Navy'', which accounts the use of these vessels by the RCN during World War II. * [[Hal Lawrence]] wrote ''A Bloody War'' including first-hand accounts of his service aboard {{HMCS|Moosejaw|K164|2}} and {{HMCS|Oakville|K178|2}}. * [[Nicholas Monsarrat]] wrote the best-known fictionalised account of Flower-class corvette operations in his novel ''[[The Cruel Sea (novel)|The Cruel Sea]]''. A less well known volume by the same author, ''[[Three Corvettes]]'', is a collection of wartime essays of his personal experiences as an officer on board a Flower, although only the first part deals with North Atlantic convoy escort duties. * Robert Radcliffe wrote ''Upon Dark Waters'', a fictionalized account of Flower-class corvette ''Daisy'', set in 1942 on the North Atlantic. * [[Denys Rayner]] wrote ''Escort'', a first-hand account of his experiences as an officer aboard a Flower. * [[Douglas Reeman]]'s 1969 novel ''To Risks Unknown'' features the fictional Flower-class corvette ''Thistle''. * [[Mac Johnston]] wrote "Corvettes Canada" aptly subtitled "Convoy Veterans of World War II Tell Their True Stories."
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