Voices from the Arctic Convoys

REPRINTING UNDER CONSIDERATION More than four million tonnes of supplies such as tanks, fighters, bombers, ammunition, raw materials and food were transported to Russia during WWII. The cost was high and by May 1945, the campaign had seen the loss of 104 merchant ships and sixteen military vessels, and thousands of the seamen they carried. The Arctic route was the most arduous with ever-present threat of attack from German U-boats and Luftwaffe bombers but they were not all the Arctic convoys had to contend with. They had to deal with severe cold, storms, fog, ice floes and waves so huge they tore at the ships armour plating. This book is dedicated to the men of these ships.