Never to Return - Convoys to Russia in the Second World War Clothing The importance of the Arctic

The importance of the Arctic convoys providing the Soviets with the necessary equipment needed to win the war on the Eastern Front has too often been underestimated

Men perished one by one in lifeboats

' have lasted to this day

The Soviet claim

All Midshipmen kept a journal

Never to Return - Convoys to Russia in the Second World War Clothing The importance of the ArcticNever 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