Force Benedict
By: Eric Carter, Antony Loveless
Contributors: Loveless, Antony, author
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781444785135; 9781444785111; 9781444785142
Subjects: Warfare and defence; British Personal narratives; British Aerial operations; British; Campaigns; World War, 1939-1945; Aerial Military operations; Military campaigns
Description: This publication tells the story of Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter, one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named Force Benedict. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941, Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not under Nazi occupation. If Murmansk fell, Soviet resistance against the Nazis would be hard to sustain and Hitler would be able to turn all his forces on Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.