Service in 1898 with the Army Quartermaster's difficulties in chartering hulls co carry troops to C uba and the Philippines. Delays caused by reconfiguring the chartered vessels led army leaders to set up an internally-ope rated uansport fle er. As early as the Seminole Wars, the navy was happy to pass off the troop and suppl y transport mission to the army. Eventually, however, rhe US Navy's Mi litary Sea Transport Service (today's Military Sealift Comma nd) took over th e mission in 1950. This book is invaluable as a refere nce tool. T here are rwenty appe ndi ces covering myriad topics in addition to numero us tables, vessel lists, charts, and photogra phs in the narrative section. D AVID F. WINKLER, PHD Naval Historical Foundation Washington, D C Warrior Queens: The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in World War II, by Daniel Allen Butler (S tackpol e Books, M echanicsburg PA, 2002, 224pp, illus, sources, appen, index, ISBN 0-8 11 7- 16457; $26 .95hc) Running the Gauntlet: How Three Giant Liners Carried a Million Men to War, 1942-1945, by Alister Satchell (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis MD , 200 l , 256pp, illus, biblio, index, ISBN 1-5575 0974-3; $39.95hc) Dani el Butler's well-researched , lively acco unt of the rwo British liners th at each carri ed a division ar a time (15 ,000+ m en) to liberate occupied Europe in World War II gives an authoritative view of how AngloAmerican cooperation achieved this fear. A uth enti c anecdotes supplemented by rwenty photographs give a human face to this vital achievement, conveyed with a stron g narrati ve flow. Alister Satchell volunteered for the Royal Australian Navy in 1940 when the German army broke loose to overrun F ranee and the Low Co untries . H e found himself ass ign ed as a cip her clerk to rhe venerable fourstacke r Aquitania-the on ly one of the lin ers to serve as transport in both wo rld wars. Markedly slower than the supership Queens, she ran with them to rush troops to threatened sectors in the Atlantic and P acific. Such liners as the Ile de France and Nieuw Amsterdam also did vital service in these runs while their homes were overrun . Satchell catches harrowing trips at sea, SEA HISTORY I 02, AUTUMN 2002
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