Glory Days: Transatlantic Liners, a companion volume to Glory Days: Cunard, recalls the era when travel by sea reached its peak, with more ships on the route than ever before carrying record numbers of passengers. It was a period thal witnessed the introduction of the largest, fastest and most luxuriously appointed ocean Iiners. Starting in the 1920s and encompassing the Depression and war years as well as the days of mass travel by sea in the 1950s, the story takes the reader up to the end of the 1960s when air travel finally and irrevocably took over. Glory Days: Transatlantic Liners follows the development of the many classic ships of state, from the famous 'Big Six' - (Majestic, Berengaria, Homeric, Aquitania, Olympic, and Mauretania) and the US-registered Leviathan, continuing with the glamourous Ile de France, Bremen, Rex, Normandie, and Queen Mary built prewar, trough to the Queen Etizabeth, Uniled States and France. Also described are many of the numerous intermediate and minor passenger ships which operated on this important sea route.