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100	1		_aGeroux, William, _eauthor. _9401002
245	1	4	_aThe ghost ships of Archangel : _bthe Arctic voyage that defied the Nazis / _cWilliam Geroux.
263			_a1905
264		1	_aNew York, New York : _bViking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, _c[2019]
264		4	_c©2019
300			_a337 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [319]-326) and index.
505	0		_aPrologue. The spinning needle -- The enemy of my enemy -- Hellish green -- Knight's move -- First blood -- Fireworks -- Scattered -- Into the ice -- Novaya Zemlya -- "We three ghosts" -- Arkhangelsk -- The knife-edge -- Reindeer games -- Reckoning.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xNaval operations. _920885
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _zArctic Ocean. _920886
650		0	_aNaval convoys _xHistory _y20th century. _920884
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