73 North: The Battle of the Barents Sea

Dudley Pope

McBooks Press, Jul 1, 2005 - History - 336 pages

The events and decisions that culminated in the Battle of the Barents Sea—what many consider to be the most important naval engagement of World War II's European theatre—in which eight of the German navy's most powerful ships failed to sink a Russian convoy guarded by only four small British destroyers, are brought to life by the author in this tale of men struggling to carry out their orders in the face of overwhelming obstacles.

About the author

Dudley Pope, a naval defense correspondent of the London Evening News, progressed to writing carefully researched naval history. C.S. Forester urged Pope to try his hand at fiction and saw the younger writer as his literary heir. Pope began what was to become an impressive series with Ramage (1965) and, over the next 24 years, produced 17 more novels tracing Lord Ramage's career. Pope died in 1997.

Bibliographic information

• Title: 73 North: The Battle of the Barents Sea
• Author: Dudley Pope
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: McBooks Press, 2005
• ISBN: 1590131029, 9781590131022
• Length: 336 pages
• Subjects: History / Military / Naval; History / Military / World War II