Hello and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast episode 443 a two

episode special first historian Angus Constam comes on to discuss his book the

convoy where one man decides to go hunting for the U-boats versus

the other way around.

And then back to the Eastern Front with The Clash of Titans.

Mr. Constam, the author of over 100 books, like Salerno,

1943, the Battle of North Cape, and his biography on Blackbeard,

comes on to discuss a moment during the war that will see the Battle of the Atlantic changed in favor of the Allies and bring hope to the British people.

Mr. Constam, thank you very much for being here. and bring hope to the British people.

Mr. Konsdam, thank you very much for being with us today.

Well, it's absolute pleasure.

So I want to say that, as you can imagine,

and I'm sure you've gotten a lot of feedback, this story, this book that you've written, the convoy, it just goes and goes and goes, and I just know it's going to be turned into a movie. When that happens, please call me and I'll carry your bags and I'll be your assistant, whatever.

It would just be so much fun. But this was an incredible story with a lot of significance that I don't think I appreciated until I read your book.

So how did you come across this particular convoy, this story?

Well, Ray, it started, but it had nothing to do with it originally because about a dozen years ago I started

interviewing Arctic convoy veterans and because you know they were getting a bit

long in the tooth and I want to get them while I still could and I was and there were both merchant navy British one some some

Norwegians in fact as well and mainly British some American Canadian and what got me was one of them said that the Arctic convoys were a sort of walk in the park.

And I said, you're kidding kidding me it's freezing out there and you know what and he said you know he was he was in this

gerbaltic convoy and he was more terrified then at one stage than at any other point and I was and that was

H. G 76 and I was and there was a merchant naval guy who was actually torpedoed four times in the war which you know he's a bit of a Jonah I think on his merchant ships and I learned two things for him. One is in the British

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