Running the Gauntlet. How three giant liners carried a million to war 1942-1945

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, 256pp, b&w photos. Remains of sticker on front cover else very good+ Tells of the wartime 'shuffle service': the use of the three great Cunard liners - Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary, and Aquitania - as fast transatlantic troop transports, and how they sailed unescorted, carrying up to 15000 men at a time, threatened by U-boats and enemy aircraft. The author was a cipher officer on the Aquitania and this account of one of the most fascinating and dangerous naval operations in history is based on his diaries.