North Atlantic Run: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle for the Convoys

by Milner, Marc

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Book desription: Penguin Books Canada, 1990 VERY GOOD 1st Softcover Printing of what has long been considered the ultimate narrative on the contribution of the Royal Canadian Navy's operations on the North Atlantic and the Battle of the Atlantic. Excellent wraps with just light edge wear. The binding is square & tight, and all the pages are crisp & clean, unmarked, and show no wear. 5" by 7.5", 326 pages, two sections of b&w photos, maps, index. - - - During WWII, Canadian navy vessels, manned by thousands of volunteers, escorted convoys headed to Great Britain and Russia across the section of the North Atlantic Ocean called 'the black pit.' Here is their gallant story, facing insurmountable odds against the German U-boats, weather, sea-sickness, boredom, and occasionally their own Allied Forces. Milner's focus is primarily on the series of bitter and tragic battles fought by the RCN in the mid-Atlantic during the latter half of 1942. Events of those six months constituted the crisis of Canada's naval war. The fall-out from this crisis, its impact on the operational deployment of the fleet, and the violent upheaval it caused in Ottawa are key parts of the story. The drama at sea was played out against a backdrop of bitter controversy at home, as the navy struggled to balance its operational commitments with the urgent need to confront and defeat a deadly enemy..

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