| Name: | Convoy PQ17 |
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Documents: 7
| 916 | BROOME, Jack. Convoy Is to Scatter. 232p., illus. London: Kimber, 1972. ISBN: 0718303326.
The senior officer of the close escort of PQ17 gives his view of the convoy through an examination of the operational signals. |
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| 917 | CARTER, William A. Why Me, Lord? The Experiences of a U.S. navy Armed Guard Officer in World War II's Convoy PQ17 on the Murmansk Run. 288p., illus., index. Millsboro, DE: author, 2007. ISBN: 0980245702.
An interesting account which also covers his return voyage in which he was sunk in the s.s. Richard Bland in RA53 in March 1943. |
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| 918 | IRVING, David. The Destruction of Convoy PQ17. xiii, 337p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cassell, 1968; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969. ISBN: 0304926620.
A most controversial book about a controversial convoy and the subject of litigation. As always, the author has discovered a formidable array of sources. A revised second edition was published in 1980 (ISBN: 0718304772) . |
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| 920 | TAYLOR, Theodore. Battle in the Arctic Seas: The Story of PQ17. 152p., bibliog., illus., index. New York: Crowell, 1976. ISBN: 1402751230.
Aimed at younger readers, it is nonetheless useful as it is based on a previously unpublished diary by an Armed Guard Ensign on the s.s. Troubador. |
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| 921 | WINN, Godfrey. PQ17: A Story of a Ship. 219p., illus. London: Hutchinson, [1947].
A highly sentimentalised account of lower deck life on the A/A cruiser Pozarica. The author took part in the murderous battle as one of her crew and describes this well and professionally. |
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| 919 | LUND, Paul, & LUDLAM, Harry. PQ17 - Convoy to Hell: The Survivor’s Story. 240p., illus., index. London: Foulsham, 1968. ISBN: 0572006284. A dramatic account of the convoy based on a wide collection of survivors' reminiscences. Lund was in the escort trawler Lord Austin. Reprinted in 2010 as I Was There on PQ17 the Convoy to Hell: Through the Icy Russian Waters of World War II. ISBN: 057203542X. |
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| 4910 | GEROUX, William. The Ghost Ships of Archangel: The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis. 337p., illus. New York: Viking, 2019. ISBN: 9780525557463. A dramatic account of PQ17 based on personal accounts, which focuses on four of the ships in the convoy. During the height of the attacks on July 5, the armed trawler Ayrshire escorted the merchantmen Silver Sword, Ironclad and Troubadour, in a dash directly into the ice barrier. Once anchored, the ships’ crews painted their superstructures white to camouflage the vessels. Then, moving slowly along the ice edge and skirting the eastern extremes of the Barents Sea, the four ships eventually made port. |
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