Brookes, Ewart, — THE GATES OF HELL.
Jarrolds, London, 1960, 1st edn., 144pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., maps at endpapers, black cloth lettered in white and red, decorative lettered dustwrapper, a good introduction to the history of the WW2 convoys to Russia in which Allied and neutral merchant vessels and Allied naval escort vessels steamed on the hazardous route through the arctic ocean from Iceland to Murmansk and Archangel, to supply Russia with war materials in WW2, for much of their journey under constant attack by German submarines and aircraft based in Norway, with details of many of the PQ convoys and with particular reference to convoys PQ17 and JW51B, edges tanned, small bookseller label front pastedown, dustwrapper: rubbed with slight loss at head of spine and upper cnr. repaired to reverse, spine a little sunned, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,
