The world of ocean liners, those built for French lines were the
epitome of style and panache, and SS Normandie perhaps the pinnacle
of this. When she entered service in 1935, she was the largest,
longest, fastest and certainly the best fed ship of her time,
serving the finest food imaginable in a dining room longer than the
Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. Normandie embodied high glamour and
was a firm favourite of many, albeit for a short time. Times were
changing and even the French government's massive subsidies to the
builders, an attempt to make Normandie a flagship for the drive out
of the Depression. could only work for so long, as the Second World
War drew nearer. She might have been a valuable troopship, and
served a the USS Lafayette for a time, but caught fire at her New
York pier in 1942. The great ship was salvaged, but with an
expensive restoration in prospect she could not escape being
scrapped in 1946-47. Through beautiful illustrations and evocative
writing, William H.Miller presents the story of one of the most
lavish liners ever to cross the seas.
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