Never to Return - Convoys to Russia in the Second World War Clothing ' have lasted to this

' have lasted to this day

The importance of the Arctic convoys providing the Soviets with the necessary equipment needed to win the war on the Eastern Front has too often been underestimated

All Midshipmen kept a journal

As thousands of the poppies used in the installation tour the country during the remainder of the First World War Centenary

Never to Return - Convoys to Russia in the Second World War Clothing ' have lasted to thisNever to Return tells the story of the Russian convoys and the heroes who sailed in them with particular focus on HMS Achates. Roderick G Maclean has gathered primary and secondary source material to give a detailed and illuminating analysis of the Russian Convoys. He tells of the commodores who came out of retirement, risking their lives to navigate convoys to Murmansk and Archangel; the doctors who diced with death, jumping from one ship to another