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Geroux, William.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Arctic Ocean.
Naval convoys -- History -- 20th century.
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Geroux, William.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Arctic Ocean.
Naval convoys -- History -- 20th century.
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The ghost ships of Archangel : the
Arctic
voyage that defied the Nazis / William Geroux.
by
Geroux, William.
Penguin Books, 2020.
Call #:
940.545 G377g
Subjects
World
War
,
1939-1945
--
Naval operations.
World
War
,
1939-1945
--
Arctic
Ocean
.
Naval convoys
--
History
--
20th century.
ISBN:
9780525557487 (lib. bdg.)
Alternate title:
Arctic
voyage that defied the Nazis
Description:
337 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
"First published in the United States of America by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019"--T.p. verso.
Summary:
"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. 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"--back cover.
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