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Title: Warrior Queens: The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in World War II by Daniel Allen Butler ISBN: 0-8117-1645-7 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: February, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I was there
Comment: I liked the way Butler filled in the history of the Queen Mary and
Queen Elizabeth.He also told a very good clear picture of life
we lived aboard ship. On page 92 second phargaph tells of a March
1945 crossing . I was on that passage and well remember hearing
the depth charges explodimg.I still have my white tag and cabin
with number on D deck.To verify my memory I checked my discharge and called our coplit yes he remembered hearing the depth charges.
This tolded of the vital roll these two great ships played in
winning of the war.Many of these things where new to me and I was there.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great story about two great ships
Comment: Most people will know of the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth as a couple of old cruise liners -- many may have stayed at the Hotel Queen Mary in the ship's now permanent home in the waters of California. For a brief time, these ships were converted to military use in World War II to transport troops. On one occasion, the Queen Mary hit the British light cruiser HMS Curacoa, causing the ship to sink with the loss of hundreds of allied soldiers.
Daniel Butler is a great historian and storyteller and he makes the wartime history of these two ships come alive. He doesn't start with the day the decision was made to use these cruise ships for military use. He sets the stage and gives the readers an understanding of the years leading to World War II -- not only giving a political and military background, but also telling us what was happening in the shipping industry that led to the construction of these two ships.
To me the two most interesting parts of the book came when Butler tells about the most significant event of the Queen Mary's tour of duty (when the Curacoa was cut in two by her), and the most mundane (what it was like for a soldier to be transported on one of the Queens). If there is a weakness, it was here. I wish he could have had more first hand accounts from the surviving veterans who had crossed the ocean on their way to war. But of course, there are fewer and fewer such survivors still with us. Butler wrote this book just in time.
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Title: Great Liners at War: The Military Adventures of the World's Largest, Fastest and Most Famous Passenger Steamships by Steve Harding, Stephen Harding ISBN: 0760303460 Publisher: MBI Publishing Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Transatlantic : Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships by Stephen Fox ISBN: 0060195959 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Picture History of the SS United States by Jr. William H. Miller ISBN: 0486428397 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 04 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Rms Queen Mary by Janette Mc Cutcheon, Janette McCutcheon ISBN: 0752417169 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Record Breakers of the North Atlantic: Blue Riband Liners, 1838-1952 by Arnold Kludas ISBN: 1574883283 Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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