Entry Text: | HALL, Ivan. Christmas in Archangel: a Memoir of Life in the Merchant Navy 1939-1946. 244p. Bloomington, Ind.: Trafford Publishing, 2009. ISBN: 9781425119706. An autobiography. He went to sea aged 16 in 1939 and travelled to South America, on Arctic convoys – where his ship was frozen in at Archangel in the winter of 1941/2 – took part in the Mediterranean invasion convoys and finally served in the Indian Ocean. |
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