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The romance and history of the great liners, the technological achievements, the influence of contemporary design, the effect that the ships themselves had on design was what has always interested me. The human interest stories of the passengers, from the billionaires travelling at the height of luxury to the immigrants travelling in appalling misery. The officers fighting nature as they struggled against the best and the worst that the sea could throw at them. The working lives of the crew, from the stewards, the stokers, the seamen and the dining room attendants. I have been fascinated by the great liners of the twentieth century since the 1960s, and have been fortunate to have several books published covering just a few of these liners, and to have helped on many other books. But throughout the years the one liner that – to me – stood above all others was Normandie.These five volumes cover the entire life of this one liner, and her effect on the growth of passenger travel and the de