This book tells the Real History of a naval disaster of World War II. In June 1942, the great Anglo-American convoy PQ-17, laden with cargoes for the Soviet Union, headed for North Russia, escorted by a mighty array of British and American warships. On July 4 the British Admiralty ordered the convoy to scatter and the escorts to escape. Codebreakers had wrongly put the mighty battleship Tirpitz at sea. The Germans hunted down and sank almost every ship. David Irving chronicled their fate, and spoke with the bomber and submarine crews. He gained access to US and British naval records, and to the admirals and politicians too. The book was a best seller – with consequences. A defamation action brought by a British Royal Navy officer led to one of the biggest libel awards ever made. The battle that began in the Barents Sea in the summer of 1942 lingered on through two more closely fought actions in the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords thirty years later: but that’s another story. 412 pages �� See the original documents:Führer Naval Conferences 1939-45 at The Irving Collection �� Related Documents from the Irving Collection German Army High Command Coastal Defence Directives and Atlantic Wall Planning Papers 1942–1944 (Irving File T78-317) Selected Extracts from the German Naval Staff War Diary, 1942–1944 (Irving File 86) USA English Translation of Fuhrer Conferences on Naval Affairs (Irving File 66) Explore primary source documents at IrvingCollection.org
