Atlantic roulette : a merchantman at war, June 1940 : running the gauntlet of U-boat alley, E-boat alley and the Luftwaffe

The author was a radio officer in the merchant navy throughout the Second World War. He joined the SS Venetia in 1940 for her voyage from London to Scotland, across the Atlantic to Aruba then back to London via Bermuda. This is his personal account of the voyage, during which the Venetia's convoys were attacked by aircraft, torpedoed and attacked by U-boats. The book gives details of the dangers and hardships endured by merchant seamen during the Battle of the Atlantic.