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The Ghost Ships of Archangel - The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis (Paperback)
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The Ghost Ships of Archangel - The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis (Paperback)
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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 split
from their decimated convoy to head further north into the ice
field of the North Pole. They were seeking safety from Nazi bombers
and U-boats in the perilous white maze of ice floes, growlers, and
giant bergs. Despite the many risks of their chosen route, the four
vessels had a better chance of reaching their destination than the
rest of the remains of convoy PQ-17. The convoy had started as a
fleet of thirty-five cargo ships carrying $1 billion worth of war
supplies to the Soviet port of Archangel--the only help Roosevelt
and Churchill had extended to Joseph Stalin to maintain their
fragile alliance against Germany. At the most dangerous point of
the voyage, the ships had received a startling order to scatter and
had quickly become easy prey for the Nazis. The crews of the four
ships focused on their mission. 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 a first taste of
war; from the Royal Navy Reserve, Lt. Leo Gradwell was given
command of the HMT Ayrshire, a British fishing trawler that had
been converted into an antisubmarine vessel. The twenty-four-hour
Arctic daylight in midsummer gave them no respite from bombers or
submarines, and they all feared the giant German battleship
Tirpitz, nicknamed the "Big Bad Wolf." Icebergs were as dangerous
as Nazis as the remnants of convoy PQ-17 tried to slip through the
Arctic to deliver their cargo in one of the most dramatic escapes
of World War II. At Archangel they found a traumatized, starving
city, and a disturbing preview of the Cold War ahead.
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