Hitler called Norway the “Zone of Destiny” for Nazi Germany
because convoys from Churchill's Britain and Roosevelt's United
States supplied Stalin’s Soviet Russia with critical equipment
and foodstuffs during the darkest days of the German invasion.
The words "Murmansk Run" conjure visions of ice-laden ships and
thoughts of freezing to death in seconds. For five long years,
thousands of men and women fought ferociously in the coldest
corner of hell on earth. Some fought for survival, some
struggled to help others survive, and some sought to crush their
enemies. If man-made death didn't get you, the Arctic's weapons
of ice and cold would. These natural weapons killed regardless
of whose side you were on or how just was your cause. No one
escaped unscathed. Author Mike Walling captures the Arctic
convoys’ bitter essence in Forgotten Sacrifice. The story
launches in October 1939, when Germany and the Soviet Union
began diplomatic maneuvering. The action accelerates with
Winston Churchill's decision in 1941 to pr