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Title: PQ17 An Arctic Convoy Disaster
Post by: Fish42 on February 01, 2014, 06:40:26 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKTLXwKJt5w

 :salute

Title: Re: PQ17 An Arctic Convoy Disaster
Post by: GScholz on February 01, 2014, 08:45:19 PM

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Title: Re: PQ17 An Arctic Convoy Disaster
Post by: GScholz on February 02, 2014, 01:19:22 PM

Clarkson should do more of these. He's good at it.

Title: Re: PQ17 An Arctic Convoy Disaster
Post by: Fish42 on February 03, 2014, 02:40:49 AM

Quote from: GScholz on February 02, 2014, 01:19:22 PM

Clarkson should do more of these. He's good at it.

He is a really good story teller. Most of his documentaries, cover stories that are not always, well known.  :aok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRaU1HqC9kY

Title: Re: PQ17 An Arctic Convoy Disaster
Post by: Sabre on February 04, 2014, 12:49:02 PM

Read "HMS Ulysses", by Alistair MacLean. MacLean’s experiences in the Royal Navy during World War II provided the background, and the ill-fated PQ-17 convoy to Murmansk provided the basis for the story.  It was written at a publisher's request after MacLean won a short story competition the previous year.  One of the most authentic fictionalized accounts of the northern convoy war ever written.