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- The_Deep_Six_(novel) abstract "The Deep Six is a 1953 novel by Martin Dibner describing the experiences of a group of U.S. Navy sailors fighting in the Aleutian Islands Campaign in 1943 during World War II. The novel, based on the author's experiences serving in the light cruiser USS Richmond during the same campaign, is written in a terse Hemingwayesque style and was a contemporary of Nicholas Monsarrat's novel The Cruel Sea and The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk. The novel reached the New York Times Bestseller List for the week of September 6, 1953, ranked 16th in sales, and appeared six times on the list until October 18, fluctuating between 14th and 16th.A third person narrative, the novel is written primarily from the point of view of Alec Austen, an artist obsessed with his painting who joins the navy to escape personal conflicts at the advertising agency at which he works and becomes an assistant gunnery officer aboard the USS Atlantis, a light cruiser identical to Richmond. The novel explores several themes, among them abuse of authority by officers, racial discrimination, the clinging by the regular navy chain of command early in the war to archaic customs and traditions detrimental to morale and the safety of the ship in combat; homosexual rape aboard ship; and the assignment in the expanded wartime navy of incompetent or marginally qualified regular officers to positions of trust and authority. The second half of novel covers a 36-hour period aboard Atlantis in which all the themes come to a head, culminating in a surface battle closely resembling the Battle of the Komandorski Islands.Motion picture rights to the The Deep Six were purchased by Jaguar Productions in 1955 and became a feature film starring Alan Ladd as Austen. The film version transformed the cruiser into a destroyer and created a plot line that did not exist in the book, using Austen's Quaker background as a starting point for a theme of pacifism versus duty during war. The title is a reference to burial at sea, i.e. "given the deep six."".
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- The_Deep_Six_(novel) publisher Doubleday_(publisher).
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- The_Deep_Six_(novel) author Martin_Dibner.
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- The_Deep_Six_(novel) name "The Deep Six".
- The_Deep_Six_(novel) pages "281".
- The_Deep_Six_(novel) pubDate "1953".
- The_Deep_Six_(novel) publisher "Doubleday & Co, New York".
- The_Deep_Six_(novel) publisher "Pinnacle, Los Angeles".
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