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An account of the author's experiences in the US Merchant Marine as a seaman aboard the SS Steel Worker as it made its way along the Norwegian coast in a Murmansk Convoy that lost half its ships in 1942.
Gives an overall picture of life on the convoy route to Murmansk, intended to make the American public aware of how the Merchant Marine was contributing to the war effort but is highly censored due to its date of publication
(In 1969 the author covered the subject again in A Cold Corner of Hell: The Story of the Murmansk Convoys 1941-45, which is presumably more comprehensive)