The Road to Russia: Arctic Convoys 1942 by Bernard Edwards (author)

US Naval Institute Press, 2003. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

US Naval Institute Press, 2003. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

US Naval Institute Press, 2003-03-31. Hardcover. Good.

Naval Institute Press. Hardcover, with dust jacket, in Fine condition, there are no stamps writing or marks, looks like new except for some scuffing on the glossy jacket, a nice-looking book, includes 8 pages of glossy photos, . Fine.

The renowned naval historian chronicles three WWII convoy missions to Russia through dangerous Arctic waters and relentless Luftwaffe attacks. During the Summer of 1942 Britain and America jointly agreed to supply desperately needed arms to Soviet Russia. Determined to stop this potentially decisive operation, the Germans relentlessly hounded the Allied convoys from the sky. And the Arctic sea battleground could not have been more inhospitable. The British and American merchantmen and their gallant naval escorts suffered grievous losses. The cold was so intense that there were pitifully few survivors from the many vessels sunk in the running battles that raged. In Road to Russia, acclaimed naval historian Bernard Edwards vividly chronicles three of these courageous and harrowing convoys PQ13 and PQ 17, bound from Iceland to North Russia, and the Westbound convoy QP13. Attacked by aircraft and U-boats, PQ13 and PQ17 lost between them a total of thirty ships while QP13, untouched by the enemy, ran into… Read More

Naval Inst Pr, 2003-03-31. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dust jacket and book are clean, has a very good binding, no marks or notations.

Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.: Naval Institute Press, 2003. First U.S. Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, [2] map, 210pp w bibliography and index. One unpaginated section of bw photographs. Dark blue cloth w bold gilt lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Colour illustrated DJ is clean and without wear, preserved in archival cover. Octavo: 24 x 16.5cm. First published in Great Britain by Leo Cooper/ Pen & Sword (2002), this is the first US edition.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Naval Inst Pr, 2003-03-31. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!