British light cruiser HMS Edinburgh escorted an Arctic convoy to the Soviet Union, but on her trip home the warship was attacked by a German U-boat
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British light cruiser HMS Edinburgh was assigned the dangerous mission of escorting an Arctic convoy to the Soviet Union. But on her trip home, laden with Russian gold, the warship was attacked by a German U-boat. The Edinburgh's fight for survival and the audacious operation launched to recover the gold decades later tell a remarkable forgotten story of bravery above and below the sea