Known as "Mr Ocean Liner", Bill Miller has written over 100 books about ocean liners-from early liners, modern cruise ships, even ships during wartime. He has also authored hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, appeared in numerous TV documentaries and is a frequent guest lecturer on today's cruise ships. Bill has won many awards, hosted an ocean liner film festival and himself been the subject of a film documentary.
Description
Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Post-War and Planning; 2 Construction, Details, and Secrecy; 3 Maiden Voyage and the First Decade; 4 The 1960s: Decline and Too Few Passengers; 5 Silent Limbo: The Early Decades; 6 Across the Atlantic: The Turkish Chapter; 7 Plans, Schemes, and Lay-Up in Philadelphia; Bibliography.