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BECKMAN, Morris. Atlantic Roulette. A Merchantman at War, June 1940: Running the Gauntlet of U-Boat Alley, E-Boat Alley and the Luftwaffe. 138p. Brighton: Donovan, 1996. ISBN: 1871085322.

A detailed and well-drawn account of one round trip to Aruba on a tramp tanker in 1940. The author was a radio officer on the s.s. Venetia. The feeling for atmosphere is as good as the feeling for facts is shaky. What appears to be a second edition was published in 2011 by The History Press as Flying the Red Duster: a Merchant Seaman's First Voyage into the Battle of the Atlantic 1940. ISBN: 0752459007.

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The Merchant Navy;

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