About the book: 2009 / "Requiem for the RO-1 7 caravan." A novel that critics call "V. Pikul's calling card" and "a small book that absorbed and the author’s entire self, as a citizen, writer, historian, documentarian, naval sailor, participant in the Great Patriotic War.” The story of the death of an Allied caravan in the polar latitudes acquires the scale and height of tragedy through Pikul’s pen—and fascinates the reader with its authenticity…