Never to Return: Convoys to Russia in the Second World War
Never to Return: Convoys to Russia in the Second World War by Roderick G. Maclean
English | August 1, 2025 | ISBN: 1036903265 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 5.8 MB
English | August 1, 2025 | ISBN: 1036903265 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 5.8 MB
Never to Return tells the story of the Russian convoys and the heroes who sailed in them with particular focus on HMS Achates.
Roderick G Maclean has gathered primary and secondary source material to give a detailed and illuminating analysis of the Russian Convoys. He tells of the commodores who came out of retirement, risking their lives to navigate convoys to Murmansk and Archangel; the doctors who diced with death, jumping from one ship to another in rough seas to administer crucial medical aid; the astonishing behaviour of Adolf Hitler in belittling his Kriegsmarine admirals and captains, making them reticent to engage with the Royal Navy in December 1942; the rescue ships which pulled freezing survivors from the ice-cold Arctic waters. Never to Return shares the story of those who, despite their fears, sailed in these convoys.