Never to Return - Convoys to Russia in the Second World War book The faculty recognised the arrival

The faculty recognised the arrival of the first three men with a commemorative plaque placed in the floor of the college's Painted Hall on June 15

revealing that the contest was more evenly balanced that previously thought

and he makes plain that the British contribution to the aid effort was greater than generally acknowledged

The book disputes the long-standing view that aid to Russia was essentially discretionary

Never to Return - Convoys to Russia in the Second World War book The faculty recognised the arrivalNever to Return tells the story of the Russian convoys and the heroes who sailed in them with particular focus on HMS Achates. Roderick G Maclean has gathered primary and secondary source material to give a detailed and illuminating analysis of the Russian Convoys. He tells of the commodores who came out of retirement, risking their lives to navigate convoys to Murmansk and Archangel; the doctors who diced with death, jumping from one ship to another