The battle of the Arctic: the overlooked crucible of WW2

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore makes the case for the Arctic convoys as a decisive campaign of the war, covering the horrors faced by merchant sailors on the Iceland-to-Russia run and the strategic importance of Lend-Lease supplies to the Soviet war effort. At 37 minutes it's necessarily compressed, but Sebag-Montefiore is a serious researcher (he wrote Enigma: The Battle for the Code) and the Arctic theatre is genuinely underserved in popular WWII coverage. A strong corrective to the usual Atlantic-centric convoy narrative.