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they kept open Britain's tenuous lifelines
steaming close by Harmatris
It was 21 July when the ship finally left for Archangel
Battle of the Arctic book HMS Griffin and Savage initiallyAs 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,