The Arctic Convoys

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ix, 198 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Operation Barbarossa; The Threat from the Tirpitz; Opposition Grows; Prelude to Disaster; Disaster; The Comback; The Attack on Convoy JW 51B; The Tirpitz Immobilsed; The Loss of the Scharnhorst; The Last Convoys; Select Bibliography; Appendixes: I. Schedule of convoys to and from North Russia, 1941-45; II. Abstract of Allied merchant ship losses; III. Analysis of Allied merchant ship losses by cause; IV. Analysis of Allied warships lost escorting Arctic convoys; V. German warships sunk during Arctic convoy operations; VI. Details of Allied warships operating with the Arctic convoys; VII. Details of German warships operating against the Arctic convoys; VIII. Note on German air forces employed in operations against Arctic convoys; IX. Orders for operation Rosselsprung; X. Deliveries of war material by the United States to the USSR via Persia, the Pacific, and the Arctic between 22 June 1941 and 20 September 1945; XI. Deliveries of war material by Great Britain to the USSR via the Arctic route between 1 October 1941 and 31 March 1946; Index. Show more