Allied Convoys To Northern Russia 1941-1945 Clothing put aside your beer-lever

put aside your beer-lever

U-boats and surface fleet spearheaded by Tirpitz and Scharnhorst

and countless hundreds maimed and wounded

the emphasis was on small-unit actions

and increasing hardships aboard the frozen ship

Allied Convoys To Northern Russia 1941-1945 Clothing put aside your beer-leverWhile the experiences of the men and ships who sailed in the Allied convoys to North Russia between August 1941 and May 1945 have been fully documented, the wider political, diplomatic and military factors which determined the campaign are less well known. The principal actors Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin each had their own agendas and expectations, influenced by advisers and competing national priorities. These inevitably gave rise to differences