Looks an interesting book. Here's a site with more info- http://british-military-ops-in-russia-in-ww2.yolasite.com/ "When The X Factor's Dermot O'Leary attended a fundraising dinner at the RAF Club in Mayfair last summer he made a beeline for an elderly gentleman called Eric Carter. Carter, 94, had never seen The X Factor and hadn't a clue who O'Leary was but the TV presenter knew a lot about him. Over dinner he drew out Carter's account of his time as a Hurricane fighter pilot during the Second World War and his role in one of the most top-secret missions of the conflict. "I asked Eric whether he had ever thought of putting his experiences down in writing," O'Leary recalls. "He said that he had but didn't think anyone would be interested in what he'd done...cue a baffled look from me. I told my publisher about him the very next day." The result is Force Benedict, a gripping tale about the British airmen who helped to turn the tide against the Nazis on the Eastern Front. In the summer of 1941 Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union described as the "defining event of the war, just as the Holocaust was the defining act of Nazism". Much has been made of the march on Moscow and the siege of Stalingrad but an intriguing subplot concerned the port of Murmansk on Kola Bay in the extreme north-west of Russia. It may not have been a trophy target on the scale of the Russian capital but it was of vital strategic importance because it represented Russia's lifeline to the West as its gateway to the Atlantic. What is more the waters of the Gulf Stream that swirled into Kola Bay meant that it was ice-free all year round." http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/469051/RAF-aces-who-fought-for-Stalin
