“Requiem for the RO-1 7 caravan.” A novel that critics call “V. Pikul’s calling card” and “a small book that absorbed the author’s entire self as a citizen, writer, historian, documentarian, military sailor, participant in the Great Patriotic War war.” The story of the death of an allied caravan in the polar latitudes takes on the scale and height of tragedy through Pikul’s pen - and fascinates the reader with its authenticity...