These were the twin threats confronting the seamen on the North Atlantic convoys: fire from the Luftwaffe's bombs, and from the torpedoes of the lurking U-Boats: ice in the deadly cold waters that could kill in three minutes, five minutes at most.
Between these two hells lived another threat: the slow paralyzing hand of fear.
A.E. Langsford was born in Cheshire in 1959 and educated at the Universities of Newcastle, York and Durham. A.E. Langsford is married to a historian and fellow writer.