THIS is a story that reads like fiction but is really history. It's an account of the last and most exciting voyage of Vitus Bering, the navigator who discovered the frozen seas of the North Pacific and opened the way to Alaska and the Aleutians.

     Bering was a Danish sailor who, three hundred years ago, was hired by the Russians to find out whether Asia and North America were linked by land. As recent fighting up there has proved, the elements have no mercy on men. Bering, too, had to fight violent storms, icy seas, and always • the blanket of fog that wrapped everything in white obscurity. Sailing thousands of miles into completely unknown waters, he had one miraculous escape after another. Finally his incredible luck ran out, and he was shipwrecked on a deserted island off Kamchatka.

     But his expedition was a success, and today a sea and strait bear his name. His was the last great voyage of discovery on our globe.

     This special edition of JOURNEY INTO THE FOG by Cornelia Goodhue has been made available to the Armed Forces of the United States through an arrangement with the original publisher, Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., New York.

     Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime