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Informationen zum Autor Andrew Britton is a lifelong shipping enthusiast and collector with a now vast body of photographs and ephemera, and a keen supporter of the SS United States Conservancy . He is the author of RMS Queen Mary and SS United States . Klappentext Offering real insight into the life on board during the Mauretania's exotic cruises, a colorful, illustrative history of the second RMS Mauretania The RMS Mauretania , the second, was a smaller version of the luxurious Cunard Queens. She ran the London to New York service from the River Thames and enjoyed enormous popularity from her launch in 1938 to her retirement in 1965, when the great age of the ocean liners waned at last. Spending time as a troopship in World War II, she then returned to the transatlantic route and even embarked upon a world cruise. Andrew Britton presents a wealth of unpublished material from his unparalleled collection to tell the story, including stunning color photographs, wartime views, unique behind-the-scenes photographs, shots taken from the air, interior views, and a wide selection of tickets, menus, log books, timetables, and much more. Zusammenfassung This long-awaited book tells the remarkable story of the second Mauretania (1938–65): her construction, her naming, her maiden voyage and her distinguished Second World War service, told through extracts from a rare diary of a soldier.
