A BLOODY BUSINESS: Convoy PQ 17

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Examines the disastrous Allied Convoy PQ 17 of 1942, exploring how strategic errors and one critical decision led to its near-destruction. Details how a a convoy supply vital war supplies from Britain and the US to the Soviet Russia was almost completely destroyed. Examines how the decision made by Chief of the Naval Staff and First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Dudley Pound, who ignored the advice of his staff, could be seen as solely responsible for the destruction.