Hitler's Arctic War mug Britain explored potential operations with

Britain explored potential operations with Russia to dislodge Germany from the Arctic coast and sever her access to important resources

despite often crippling losses of lives

Dundonnell

Strained Anglo-Soviet relations coupled with mounting losses and atrocious weather and sea conditions led to the near termination of the programme in early 1943\

so that what is chronicled at times sounds like a cross between the nightmarish torment experienced by both Shackleton in his ship Endurance and Scott of the Antarctic

Hitler's Arctic War mug Britain explored potential operations withIn the past the German General Staff had taken no interest in the military history of wars in the north and east of Europe. Nobody had ever taken into account the possibility that some day German divisions would have to fight and to winter in northern Karelia and on the Murmansk coast. (Lieutenant General Waldemar Erfurth, German Army). Despite this statement, the German Armys first campaign in the far north was a great success: between April and June