Okhota za poliarnymi konvoiami. Skandinavskii platsdarm Tret'ego reikha - Gur'ev Evgenii Pavlovich

The Norwegian campaign of the Wehrmacht was the first combined operation of the army, aviation and navy in the history of military art, and Norway itself became the "unsinkable aircraft carrier" of the Third Reich. Attacks of polar convoys, which delivered to the USSR about half of all strategic cargoes on the land-lease, including the legendary P-17, Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine were conducted from bases on the Norwegian coast. This book, based on declassified archival documents, answers the most contentious and complex questions of the Germans' use of THE SKYSTOD. What helped to capture Norway quickly and why the German losses were a third higher than the Allied losses? What is the true role of the Scandinavian bridgehead in Hitler's plans and why in 1941 his submarines failed to prevent transportation to the Soviet Union? What was the strategy and tactics of action against polar convoys? Why, despite the deteriorating situation on the fronts, the German command increased the grouping of u-bots in the Arctic? Why did the mine war not bring tangible results to Kriegsmarine, and the operations of surface ships (including the famous "Tirpitz") against the polar convoys invariably ended in failure? Finally, why, having the ability to control the movement of convoys almost all the way, the Germans were not able to disrupt or at least seriously reduce supplies to the USSR?