Author: Brookes, Ewart,
Title: THE GATES OF HELL.
Description: Jarrolds, London, 1960, 1st edn., 144pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., maps at endpapers, black cloth lettered in white and red at spine,coloured decorative lettered dustwrapper, a good introduction to the history of the WW2 convoys to Russia in which Allied and neutral merchant vessels and Allied naval escort vessels steamed on the hazardous route through the arctic ocean from Iceland to Murmansk and Archangel, to supply Russia with war materials in WW2, for much of their journey under constant attack by German submarines and aircraft based in Norway, with details of many of the PQ convoys and with particular reference to convoys PQ17 and JW51B, edges tanned, faint fox mark upper edge, dustwrapper: chipping at spine ends, rubbing with some surface loss at extrems., repaired to reverse, spine sunned, lower panel lightly soiled, very good plus in a good plus dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 sea navy russia arctic kola bear island iceland murmansk tirpitz convoy pq17 pq18 jw51b 43132


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