Through Ice and Fire: A Russian Arctic Convoy Diary 1942

Arctic convoy memories reveal endurance and humor that sustained sailors through relentless cold and danger.

On the Russian Arctic convoys in 1942, Leonard H. Thomas kept a secret notebook containing detailed observations of life aboard his ship, HMS Ulster Queen, including intense recollections of hours spent at action stations in the engine room, keeping the ship going while under fire from both the skies above and waters below. He tells of how, while berthed for weeks at Archangelsk in no...