Windrush: A Ship Through Time

by Paul Arnott

Book Overview

For three decades the Windrush was the maritime Zelig of the 20th century. Designed in 1930 in the Hamburg boatyard of a Jewish shipbuilder to ferry Germans to a new life in South America, it wasn't long before Goebbels requisitioned her. She became a Nazi troop carrier, a support vessel for the pocket battleship Tirpitz, and a prison ship transporting Jews to Auschwitz. Captured by the British in 1945 and renamed the SS Empire Windrush,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750989866
• ISBN13: 9780750989862
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"