Windrush: A Ship Through Time

Paul Arnott

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Hamburg, 1930. German shipbuilders Blohm & Voss build a transatlantic ocean cruiser and christen her Monte Rosa.

Norway, 1940. The Monte Rosa is sent to assist the dreaded Tirpitz as she bombards British ships.

Auschwitz, 1942. Forty-six Jews wait at the gates, after the Monte Rosa had transported them from Oslo.

Kiel, 1945. The Monte Rosa is captured by the British and given a new name: Empire Windrush.

London, 1948. The Empire Windrush docks in England, carrying 600 migrants from the Caribbean.

In Windrush: A Ship Through Time, Paul Arnott explores the epic story of a vessel that played a part in some of the most momentous events of the twentieth century, and whose fateful 1948 voyage continues to have consequences - both personal and political - today.

Book Details

Publisher: History Press
Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2022
Pages: 288
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
EAN: 9780750997454
Categories: • Ships & Shipbuilding - History• Social History

About the Author

PAUL ARNOTT'S career in media began at The Independent and Time Out as an arts correspondent before he became a television producer and director, making films and documentaries for the BBC and Channel Four. He is the author of A Good Likeness: A Personal Story of Adoption (Little, Brown), Let Me Eat Cake (Hodder) and Is Anybody Up There? (Hodder). He lives in Devon, where he is a leading anti-corruption campaigner, district councillor and the leader of the East Devon Alliance of Independents.

Praise for this book

"Arnott's book offers an unusual perspective, revealing how a vessel, criss-crossing the oceans, changed history." --Guardian

"Windrush, A Ship Through Time darts around like a motor torpedo boat, blowing lazy historical assumptions out of the water and dropping depth charges that explode beneath the conventional narratives of 20th century history. . . . There can be few better reads to put into context what we are going through now." --Brixton Blog