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The Ghost Ships of Archangel - The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis (Hardcover)
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The Ghost Ships of Archangel - The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis (Hardcover)
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An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War
II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to
deliver much needed supplies to the Soviet war effort. On the
fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic
separated from their decimated convoy to head further north into
the ice field of the North Pole, seeking safety from Nazi bombers
and U-boats in the perilous white maze of ice floes, growlers, and
giant bergs. Despite the risks, they had a better chance of
survival than the rest of Convoy PQ-17, a fleet of thirty-five
cargo ships carrying $1 billion worth of war supplies to the Soviet
port of Archangel--the limited help Roosevelt and Churchill
extended to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to maintain their fragile
alliance, even as they avoided joining the fight in Europe while
the Eastern Front raged. The high-level politics that put Convoy
PQ-17 in the path of the Nazis were far from the minds of the
diverse crews aboard their ships. U.S. Navy Ensign Howard Carraway,
aboard the SS Troubadour, was a farm boy from South Carolina and
one of the many Americans for whom the convoy was to be a first
taste of war; aboard the SS Ironclad, Ensign William Carter of the
U.S. Navy Reserve had passed up a chance at Harvard Business School
to join the Navy Armed Guard; from the Royal Navy Reserve, Lt. Leo
Gradwell was given command of the HMT Ayrshire, a fishing trawler
that had been converted into an antisubmarine vessel. All the
while, The Ghost Ships of Archangel turns its focus on Roosevelt,
Churchill, and Stalin, playing diplomatic games that put their
ships in peril. The twenty-four-hour Arctic daylight in midsummer
gave no respite from bombers, and the Germans wielded the
terrifying battleship Tirpitz, nicknamed The Big Bad Wolf. Icebergs
were as dangerous as Nazis. As a newly forged alliance was close to
dissolving and the remnants of Convoy PQ-17 tried to slip through
the Arctic in one piece, the fate of the world hung in the balance.
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