The story of Allied merchant ships and crews who braved the frigid far north to extend a lifeline to Russia, filled with “sheer heroism and brazen drama” (L

Award-winning historian Mike Walling captures the essence of the Arctic Convoys of World War II. In 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the largest offens

Drawn from one of largest collections of convoy records in existence, this book describes the development and operations of Allied convoy systems.

A new history of the most crucial few months of the Arctic Convoys, when Germany's air power forced the Allies to retreat to the cover of winter. Between spring

In the past the German General Staff had taken no interest in the military history of wars in the north and east of Europe. Nobody had ever taken into account t