Never to Return - Convoys to Russia in the Second World War book B’ e co-ogha dha mhàthair

B’ e co-ogha dha mhàthair a bha ann an Daibhidh

which withstood unremitting U-boat attacks and aerial bombardment to maintain the lifeline to Russia

This film is dedicated to the enduring memory of all those Russian and Allied men and women

The book disputes the long-standing view that aid to Russia was essentially discretionary

naval officers who saw so much action as Alec Dennis

Never to Return - Convoys to Russia in the Second World War book B’ e co-ogha dha mhàthairNever 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