Battle of the Arctic book The price they paid for

The price they paid for their bravery and dedication was horrendous: 2

This deficiency was exacerbated by heavy merchant shipping losses and the demands of Operation TORCH

but a swarm of airborne attacks

they kept open Britain's tenuous lifelines

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Battle of the Arctic book The price they paid forAs this books title implies, Battle of the Arctic tells a unique story. For much of the conflict was complicated by terrific storms, snow, ice, fog, whales and Arctic mirages, so that what is chronicled at times sounds like a cross between the nightmarish torment experienced by both Shackleton in his ship Endurance and Scott of the Antarctic, and an Arctic version of Robinson Crusoe. The action unfolded as Allied naval and merchant seamen, airmen,