Arctic Mission 90 North by Airship and Submarine by William F. Althoff Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2011 An account of the US Navy’s work in the Arctic in 1958 telling the story of the USS Nautilus but also flights by… Read More »Arctic Mission
Arctic Airmen – The RAF in Spitsbergen and North Russia, 1942 by Ernest Schofield & Roy Conyers Nesbit Spellmount, Staplehurst, 2005 First Published by William Kimber in 1987
The Sledge Patrol by David Howarth Collins, London, 1957 The story of wartime dog patrols in the North-East of Greenland during WWII.
Drift Station – Arctic Outposts of Superpower Science by William F. Althhoff Potomac Books, Washington, 2007 “Closed to conventional passage, the Arctic Ocean and peripheral seas have nevertheless known European explorers since the sixteenth century. Systematic observation, however, dates only from… Read More »Drift Station
The Arctic Frontier edited by R. St. J. MacDonald University of Toronto Press, 1966 An series of articles concerning the administration of Northern territiories and their peoples and a relatively early reviews of the strategic significance of the Arctic.
The Scramble for the Arctic – Ownership, Exploitation and Conflict in the Far North by Richard Sales & Eugene Potapov Frances Lincoln Limited, London, 2010 “…examines the history of the region and its exploration, the current state of ownership, the… Read More »The Scramble for the Arctic
Russia and the North edited by Elana Wilson Rowe University of Iowa Press, 2009 A series of articles concerning Russia activities in the Arctic covering “circumpolar cooperation, security, fisheries, energy, climate change, population/migration and indigenous peoples“.
Great World War II Battles in the Arctic by Mark Llewellyn Evans Contributions to Military Studies, No. 172, Greenwood Press, London, 1999
Polar Imperative – A history of Arctic Sovereignty in North America by Shelagh D. Grant Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, 2010 “Polar Imperative is a definitive overview of many countries’ attempts to claim sovereign rights over the polar regions of North… Read More »Polar Imperative
Surface at the Pole, Commander James Calvert, USN (1961) The story of the USS Skate.
Submarines Under Ice, The U.S. Navy’s Polar Operations, Marion D. Williams (1998)
Unknown Waters, Alfred S. McLaren (2008) A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651)
The Ice Diaries, Captain William R. Anderson (2008) The Untold Story of the USS Nautilus and the Cold War’s Most Daring Mission.
